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Everything new is old again. Some really good news. Going back to the "old" system of links last week seemed to solve the problems people were having. No link complaints. Thanks for your patienc ...

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First, I once again apologize to those of you who have been having diffficulty with the links in these emails over the past two weeks. I thought we had it fixed last week, but alas, that was not the case. Some people still couldn't make the ...

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There is a lot to cover this week, so I'll get right to it.

Last week some of you had difficulty with the links in this email. That happens sometimes, for some people, and I'm never sure why. If you missed last week's Monday Morning Email, Bob Burroughs had a ...

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Last week I talked about the kindness of strangers. We were on the road for the week, staying with family and friends in a trip across the California and Arizona deserts. This week I want to talk about the kindness of friends. Somewhere about the mid-point of the trip something hit me - a cold, a virus, the swine flu, who knows? - and I spent ...

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UPDATE: Due to server problems, Monday Morning Email was late this week. I apologize. For more information as to why, please read this http://is.gd/1iivt

Now back to our original programming...

This morning I am reminded about the kindness of strangers. We're on the road for the next week, ...

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Did you do anything special yesterday for Father's Day? If you've been a Monday Morning Email reader for some time you know that I don't personally think we should "celebrate" Hallmark holidays in worship, but I'm pretty sure that most churches in the US did something for Mother's Day, and where does that leave the fathers when their day comes around? Here's something that I've done at the last four churches I've served: POPS Sunday. This is a...ahem...clever play on words, and allows my musicians ...

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Is it summer at your church yet? I serve in an area that has a large college student community, and yesterday we were filled to overflowing with grads and their families. It means that there is always a certain amount of "young person turnover" in the congregation as these folks finish their training and move on (or back to their home towns). At another congregation I served, we were in what the regional newspaper deemed "the perfect suburb," but we found that there was a certain amount of "junior ex ...

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So yesterday was Trinity Sunday. Did you sing Holy, Holy Holy, Lord God Almighty? Yesterday also started the liturgical season that consumes the most calendar time each year...waiting for summer to arrive/waiting for summer to be over/ramping up for "kick off"" Sunday/waiting for advent... Now is the time to be planning, friends and neighbors, before you wind down for the summer. And planning means more than just deciding when to resume your "regular" schedule. It also means what is called in the edu ...

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Did you sing Happy Birthday to the church this Pentecost Sunday?

An update (particularly since some of you have asked) about my social networking experiment/experience...
About 8 weeks ago my friend Doug Lawrence was visiting and convinced (watched over my shoulder and told me what to do) me to join facebook. I had resisted it for years, for a lot of reasons which aren't important to this update. I started in fear and trepidation, mostly because I didn't want to be spending e ...

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Let us here at Creator join the chorus of people who take our hats off and salute the people who have served in the military in order to keep us free...may we never get to the point where we take that for granted...

Pentecost this Sunday...may the Holy Spirit rain tongues of fire down upon you and your congregation this week...

It being a holiday, I'll keep this short...

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