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What Are You Hoping For?

Last Tuesday I got a call from my one-week-from-being-done-with-college daughter, Rachel.  She said, breathlessly, “Daddy… I got into Gordon-Conwell!”  G.C. is an evangelical seminary near Boston.  (In fact, it is Pastor Larry and Megan’s alma mater.)  Rachel is a theology major at Whitworth with a biblical languages minor.  She wants to be a professor someday […]

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The Awkwardness of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I love it for all kinds of reasons: It is the most unsullied religious holiday of the year.  My baby comes home from college. It always lands on the same day of the week thus insuring a predictable, extra-long weekend. I like earth tone colored foods and I love leftovers…especially […]

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Gig Harbor City Council Celebrates Jubilee Too!

Chapel Hill, you may already know about our big Jubilee celebration (November 17th!) but did you know our community is celebrating our 50 years as a church as well? Tomorrow, November 12th, starting at 5:30pm the city council of Gig Harbor will sign a resolution making November 17th Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church Day! Please, if […]

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Burned at the Stake in Our Traffic Circle???

Eighteen months ago our church session recommended to the Chapel Hill congregation that we move into the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. This was a principled, prayerful decision born out of deep theological conviction. The congregation affirmed that decision by a vote of 92% in the affirmative. I wonder what the vote would have been if it […]

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