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George Fritsma
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Someone to Watch Over Me
When author and sociologist Tony Campolo was little, walking to school by himself was not a wise option. Who knew what might happen to...
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George Fritsma
Nov 12, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Child's Play
What happens when children talk to God? If the missives found in Children’s Letters to God (Workman Publishing, 1966) are any...
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George Fritsma
Nov 11, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Action Figures
The Hasbro toy company hoped to make a new product splash at the 1964 New York Toy Fair. What they ended up doing was introducing an...
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George Fritsma
Nov 8, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Homecoming
For ten long years, the greatest hero of ancient Greek literature tries to find his way home. Odysseus has led the Greeks to victory in...
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George Fritsma
Nov 8, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Nap Time
In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev agonized for days over the puzzle of how to arrange the known elements. Sleepiness finally...
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George Fritsma
Nov 6, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Real Story About God
Pastors sometimes get surprising questions. In his book The Good and Beautiful God, James Bryan Smith recounts a story he heard from...
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George Fritsma
Nov 5, 20241 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: A Peculiar Blessing
On this Election Day in the United States, it’s clear that no matter who receives the most votes, the path ahead of us is going to be...
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George Fritsma
Nov 4, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Name Game
What’s in a name? More than 150 years ago, when European surveyors were attempting to map the primary geological features on...
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George Fritsma
Nov 1, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: One Small Task
August 14, 2003, was the night that the lights went out in New York City. A blackout shut down the power grid in eight states, mostly...
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George Fritsma
Oct 31, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Do What You Will
The British press once declared him to be “the wickedest man in the world.” After all, he crossed every line, broke every rule,...
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George Fritsma
Oct 30, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Priest Who Pushed Back
Five hundred and seven years ago, on the day we’ve come to know as Halloween, Martin Luther changed the course of history. The German...
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George Fritsma
Oct 29, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Going Through Fire
A half-century ago, the Ford Motor Company was embroiled in a national controversy concerning the Pinto, a compact car that sometimes...
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George Fritsma
Oct 28, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: See For Yourself
For most of my adult life I’ve been a birdwatcher. Birding, as its practitioners call it, is an interesting hobby. That’s because...
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George Fritsma
Oct 25, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Stand By Me
Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947. It is difficult to comprehend the sheer hatred he had to...
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George Fritsma
Oct 24, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Happy Little Accidents
He spent 20 years of his life screaming his head off. As a drill sergeant, he was (in his own words) “the guy who makes you scrub the...
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George Fritsma
Oct 23, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Excruciating Pain
America lost one of its most gifted writers in 2016 when 70-year-old Pat Conroy died of pancreatic cancer. Conroy’s fiction (The Prince...
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George Fritsma
Oct 22, 20242 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: The Joy of the Surprising Gift
A few years ago John Gilbert died at the age of 25 at his home in Paradise, California. When he was five years old, John was diagnosed...
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George Fritsma
Oct 21, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: Defeating Evil
As J.K. Rowling was putting the finishing touches on her seven-part Harry Potter series, she received a lot of advice. Parents,...
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George Fritsma
Oct 18, 20243 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: In Due Time
“In due time.” That was one of my dad’s favorite Dad-isms. I have vivid memories of my brothers and I approaching our father after...
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George Fritsma
Oct 17, 20244 min read
Pastor Glenn McDonald: True Enlightenment
Little more than a century ago, the city of Vienna imagined itself the embodiment of modern enlightenment. Philosophers were...
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