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<p>Christmas has a lot of meaning in our world, and it means different things for different people. There is the fun of the Christmas "spirit" with the giving and receiving of gifts, the childlike imagination of Santa Claus, the quiet and dark of the season where the stars shine so brightly on a cold night. And of course for the Christian, it is the celebration of promise fulfilled in the babe in Bethlehem, Jesus Christ.<br><br>Regardless of where you are on this spirit and spiritual spectrum, one thing that is…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998153/i-see-you-a-christmas-encouragement">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Can you feel it? I bet most of you have. The pre-Black Friday emails have been coming for the past week. The warnings of holiday travel times have been rolling through the media. Santa is at the mall, and for some reason, December decided to skip its place in the seasonal line and jump in and take over November's weather.<br><br>Yep, it's the season for "GOTTA GET IT DONE AND MAKE IT PERFECT" anxiety. <br><br>happy place, happy place, happy place<br><br>About 8 years ago I had my first encounter with full blown depression. I've…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998152/stop-wait-rest">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><br>The topic of doubt is a big one in the lives of Christ "But how can I trust you?” Says the parent to the teenager that had the car out past curfew with no call and no answer? "But how can I trust you now?” Says one spouse to another in the midst of a lie discovered? "But how can I trust you now?” Says a friend to a former when the gossip reaches their ears? “But how can I trust you?” Says the Christian to God when circumstances go beyond the sight of faith.<br><br>The topic of doubt is a big one in the lives of…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998151/can-you-have-faith-without-a-doubt">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>I was making a forecast earlier this week and felt pretty good about how things were turning out. Most of the big storms were in Minnesota and Iowa and I knew there was a small chance for a few weak ones along a cold front dropping through northern WI as it headed south. When I got home from the office, my email started to let me know that the office was putting out alerts for storms near Green Bay - I had underestimated the impact of the cold front and the storms were bigger than I thought they were. In…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998150/i-wish-i-had-a-do-over">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>This!... That's how it actually finishes. "In days to come, you will understand this". This phrase just blew me away in my reading of the book of Jeremiah, and I honestly haven't really been able to move past it. After all, how many times do we ask God - WHY?? <br>&nbsp;<br>I have found truth in the statement that "Disappointment comes from unmet expectations", and it has been a very helpful way for me to process frustration, anger, and sorrow. Know too that many unmet expectations begin as "stealth assumptions"; it is…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998149/for-all-who-ask-god-why">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>A few weeks ago I was reading in a Christian magazine called "Forward in Christ", a brief article about the word "Amen". Ask someone what it means and you get the general definition of "agreement". Ask a Christian and it is often translated something like "So shall it be". Or if you were Jean Luk Picard from Star Trek the Next Generation "Make it so!". It might even be translated "la la la la, la la la la", perhaps silly, but when put at the end of the statement "We are found in you! And this makes all the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998148/live-like-it-s-true">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>On May 15th, a fire broke out in downtown Milwaukee on the roof of the historic Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS) and one of downtown Milwaukee's oldest church landmarks. Many of us in SE Wisconsin have seen the devastation from that fire and felt a loss and a perhaps a bit of wonder at how God allows something like this to happen.<br><br>Whenever we go to events in downtown Milwaukee, we frequently park in the lot behind the church so this fire had something of a personal effect for me and my family. A couple weeks…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998147/in-the-shadows-of-a-burned-out-church">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>If you haven't heard by now, I've been given the honor to pray over some specific next steps in the life of my family and ministry. It has been percolating for the past few years where I have been a part time ministry worker with my home church at St. Paul's WI where I lead worship 3 weekends/month, help with scheduling and mentoring as well as participate in our Ministry Growth Team. As God has started to shuffle the ministry staff "deck" in many churches around the country, he has seen fit to extend a…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998146/the-journey-of-a-divine-call">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Finish this for me "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but..." One of the great lies of Satan. It is amazing the power that words have over our emotions, our futures and at the core of it all, our identity. I was talking to one of the young adults that I have an opportunity to walk with in life, and as we talked about the struggles that come from being ignored, we stepped back in time to when they were younger and had to deal with the name calling and put downs of life that come in our early teens. Those…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998145/who-named-you-that">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><i>“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.&nbsp;In this world you will have trouble.&nbsp;But take heart! I have overcome&nbsp;the world.” - John 16:33</i></p><p><i>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</i></p><p>The passage above has long been a favorite of mine, especially in times where life has seemed to swallow up the hopes that I had been holding onto. In a challenging time in our family a few years ago, this was one of the passages that kept us close to the Savior... one…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998144/everything-for-good">Read more</a></span></div>
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