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George Fritsma
Dec 11, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: O Tannenbaum
One of the world’s most popular Christmas songs actually started out as a She Done Me Wrong song. O Tannenbaum (or O Christmas Tree, as...
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George Fritsma
Dec 10, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: O Holy Night
How can we know what something is worth? Two recent auctions have challenged our capacity to answer that question. Last month,...
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George Fritsma
Dec 9, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: I Wonder as I Wander
During the heart of the Depression, American folklorist John Jacob Niles was sampling original music of Appalachian hill folk. While...
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George Fritsma
Dec 6, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Silent Night
What Christmas carol has the distinction of being written in its entirety on Christmas Eve? That would be Silent Night, which sprang...
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George Fritsma
Dec 5, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Wexford Carol
If carolers come to your front door this December, they will likely sing Jingle Bells and We Wish You a Merry Christmas, irrationally...
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George Fritsma
Dec 4, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: O Come All Ye Faithful
When my two brothers and I came into the world, we each received a security blanket. My older brother Scott got a blue one. My younger...
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George Fritsma
Dec 3, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Little Drummer Boy
Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing a Christmas duet? Crosby, the World War II-era crooner, was skeptical. What he knew of British rock...
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George Fritsma
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: O Come O Come Emmanuel
Father Gregory Boyle directs Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, arguably the world’s most successful ministry to the members of...
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George Fritsma
Nov 29, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: An Extended Hand
What’s the key relational issue in the Bible? That’s easy: It’s forgiveness. Apart from the willingness and the ability to forgive,...
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George Fritsma
Nov 29, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: So That
There were no fall harvest festivals in ancient Israel. That’s because the growing season in the Promised Land, at least from our...
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George Fritsma
Nov 27, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Other F Word
It’s time to take on what some counselors and psychologists call the Other F Word. Fine. As in, “How are you doing?” “I’m fine,...
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George Fritsma
Nov 26, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Once Upon a Time
What drives the Literati – the lovers of what is commonly identified as Great Literature – absolutely crazy? It’s the fact that the...
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George Fritsma
Nov 25, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Prints in the Sand
Most people have encountered, at one time or another, an inspirational piece called Footprints in the Sand. It describes a man who...
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George Fritsma
Nov 22, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Something Important
In 1982, Chuck Colson brought a team of Prison Fellowship workers to the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. There they led a...
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George Fritsma
Nov 21, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: National Pastime
Sports attendance, sports betting, and sports talk represent one of the most dominant realities on the American scene. It’s all sports...
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George Fritsma
Nov 20, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: A Pound of Mushrooms
My mom, who stepped into the next world seven years ago at the age of 92, was somewhat eccentric. She had a lifelong love affair with...
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George Fritsma
Nov 19, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Holding On
His real name was Jean-François Gravelet. But shortly after he launched his career in the 1840s as Europe’s greatest “funambulist” or...
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George Fritsma
Nov 18, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Help That Doesn't Hurt
For multitudes of individuals and organizations, the holidays have become the season of compassion. But how do we help without hurting?...
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George Fritsma
Nov 18, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Kissing the Blarney Stone
Public speaking freaks a lot of people out. Jerry Seinfeld famously noted, “According to most studies, people's number one fear is...
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George Fritsma
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Richness of Being
If you visit the website of Occidental Petroleum (now known as Oxy), there’s no mention of Armand Hammer in the official history of the...
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