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  <div class="message"><p>I get asked sometimes about why I think Christianity is different. Why Jesus is different than all of the other religious figures? What makes Jesus so profound that I would make him my world view, and it keeps coming back to the reality of Grace and the reality of Karma.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Karma, probably the traditional way Americans think about it anyway, usually comes around the idea that "what goes around comes around" You get what you deserve in the end. Your good deeds must outweigh your bad deeds. In other words…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/6227877/i-need-a-savior-not-a-santa">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Last week I was driving my Freshman son to school and we came up to what is known to be a Looooonnnng stoplight. While he insisted that we would be late, I decided that, instead of waiting for 3 minutes to go straight, I would safely and legally turn right, turn left and turn right again and save my son 2.5 minutes and keep him on time for class. He was quite frustrated with me at first and I asked him point blank "Do you TRUST me?". And from the back seat of the car, his blunt answer was - NO!<br><br>While it was…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998162/when-god-might-need-a-backseat-driver-umm-never">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Do you know what a "doppelganger" is? The dictionary gives the entry of "a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person". I had never heard the word before an artist that I have a lot of respect for somehow managed to put it into a song that somehow made a lot of sense. You see, I've been coming to a realization about myself and about us as human beings. There is a part of me that I really... Really... REALLY want you to know. And there is a part of me that I really... Really... REALLY hate. I would…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998161/jesus-didn-t-come-for-you">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>I just wanted to share with you some of the changes coming up and to ask for your prayers.<br><br><strong>I have been the Director of Operations for Innovative Weather</strong> at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee for the past 12 1/2 years, where I mentor college students in the field of meteorology. I oversee all partner relationships, develop the internship program and do life with my staff. It has been an amazing run and on October 31st I will work my last formal shift as the leader of that intern program. Before that, I was…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998160/moving-from-meteorology-to-ministry">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p></p><p>There are probably 3 Bible passages that find voice in the songs of this album. For the Christian, they are very familiar passages of hope in troubled times, and I hope they are treasures to you. Romans 8:28 and Jeremiah 29:11. But during a season of intense challenge and fear, it was this diamond of truth in Lamentations that God sang over me and my family. While that fear gripped us for a time, God’s patient, steady healing had begun much earlier by planting so many stories of his faithfulness in our…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998159/everything-for-good-3b0390a0-b9ce-4ba8-abeb-c537c454071d">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Spring is my favorite time of year. I enjoy Summer's heat, the colors of Autumn, snowstorms and Christmas lights in Winter. But I LOVE seeing the earth explode with color and life (and no I don't have allergies). God reminds us of his Gospel Grace "See I make all things new!" and I just revel in the longer days, warmer nights and the way things come to life. So what about this year? In the western US, they never really got a spring. It just jumped from a wet winter to summer. But for me, my precious…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998158/abominables-and-the-spring-that-wouldn-t-come">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p></p><p>In my 7th grade confirmation class, my students have had a hard time getting their heads around what the "Gospel" is. Most of the time they'll say "It's the happy part of the Bible" or "It's found mainly in the New Testament". They're not wrong, they just aren't right.<br><br>If you're new to Christianity, the idea of translation for the word "Gospel" is "The Good News" or more specifically, "The Good Message". I honestly prefer the word "message" in our context and culture of the day because nobody reads the news…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998157/did-you-hear-the-good-message">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p></p><p>&nbsp;"I thought I could handle it. I knew it would be a little dangerous and that someone might recognize me, but I had to do something Luke! So I followed John who was able to get us into the courtyard as we waited to figure out what was going to happen to Jesus. I thought, maybe there was a rescue, but you know I did tell him that I would die for him. I tried to do it with my little short sword in the Garden, but the Master wasn't pleased with that effort. So while I was in the courtyard some people started…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998156/he-looked-right-at-me">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>"White Washed Tombs". That's what Jesus called a group of religious elites in his day. Jesus, the Son of God, who was sent to bring life to the dead, healing to the sick and to bind up the brokenhearted had had enough. The Pharisees had pushed, prodded and "prouded" themselves throughout Jesus ministry and God was done. Jesus, God in human flesh, calls out these religious elites with seven woes, each one more damning than the previous one. And then he gets to the 6th time and he calls them a grave that has…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998155/the-pharisee-in-me">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>January is known for a lot of things. If I were to ask you what the month of January meant to you, what would you say? For us, the wedding anniversary of my wife and I (22 years this year!). It's the birthday month of two of our three kids It's Awake and Alive month! And it's the month when seasonal depression can really kick in.&nbsp;<br><br>Right now, we're just starting to come out of the darkest time of the year, have endured a lot of snow and cold these last couple weeks (-21F this morning in MKE), and for some, it…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998154/rest-in-the-midst-of-the-polar-plunge">Read more</a></span></div>
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