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Lawrence Taylor
Jun 18, 20232 min read
Father's Day
Father’s Day stirs mixed emotions. On the one hand, I love being a father and always had. I became one quite early – I was only 20 when...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jun 14, 20232 min read
Abuse & Restoration
We tend to err on the extremes too often. A pastor (especially a pastor of a megachurch) falls into moral failure. One extreme is to...
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Lawrence Taylor
Apr 20, 20232 min read
Transformation or Negation?
When the love of Christ flooded my soul, I knew I was accepted. I was overwhelmed with joy. I was radically converted. Unfortunately, I...
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Lawrence Taylor
Apr 20, 20233 min read
How do we treat the severely mentally ill?
Brilliant teachers can change your life. I became fascinated with mental illness in college when I took a course in psychopathology from...
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Lawrence Taylor
Apr 20, 20233 min read
How to Grow in Faith
What does it mean to be discipled? According to Billy Graham, it essentially meant read the Bible, go to church, tell others about...
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Lawrence Taylor
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Fear is not a sin
There is no good reason to feel guilty about being afraid. I was erroneously taught that fear is the opposite of faith. Fear, anxiety,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Apr 4, 20231 min read
Talk About Suicide
A friend of mine committed suicide recently. He was highly intelligent, quite skilled at his profession, and helped a multitude of people...
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Lawrence Taylor
Mar 31, 20234 min read
When we pray
“Lord, teach us to pray …” (Luke 11:1) Many well-meaning prayers fail to plumb the depths of the divine. We all know that rote pious...
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Lawrence Taylor
Mar 26, 20232 min read
Give Your Folks a Call Today
One of the saddest things I’ve seen as a pastor, chaplain, counselor, and spiritual director is grown-up children who reject, rebuff,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Mar 26, 20232 min read
Don't Listen to Those Who Condemn You
Many sins are quiet and respectable, and therefore go unnoticed in our culture. How many sermons have you heard on gluttony or the evils...
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Lawrence Taylor
Mar 14, 20235 min read
What is Love?
Asked to define love, the young man replied, “Love is a feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you’ve never felt before.” Everyone...
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Lawrence Taylor
Mar 11, 20233 min read
Healers of the Soul
I meet regularly with a spiritual director and a psychologist for my own growth. In my experience, everyone can benefit from spiritual...
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Lawrence Taylor
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Questions
Questions Often Mask Deeper Questions Quite regularly, congregants will approach a pastor after the worship service and ask generalized...
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Lawrence Taylor
Mar 8, 20232 min read
It Depends
We far too often talk past each other. In order to understand one another, it’s imperative we define terms. Two different people both...
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Lawrence Taylor
Feb 25, 20232 min read
Being Fully Present
To be fully present in each moment opens up a whole new glorious universe. An advantage of having a scientist father was learning the...
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Lawrence Taylor
Feb 24, 20234 min read
How Deep Will You God With God?
How deeply will I allow the Spirit of God to penetrate my being? Spiritual direction involves spiritual formation that goes well beyond...
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Lawrence Taylor
Feb 23, 20233 min read
I Lost a Friend
I had a friend named Zach (not his real name) whom I had known for over 20 years. He came to me for pastoral care. For most of this past...
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Lawrence Taylor
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Searching for the True Self
He sailed from island to island Never setting ashore, nor Dropping anchor in spite of Inviting coves of clear water, Reefs teeming with...
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Lawrence Taylor
Feb 17, 20232 min read
Deconstructing, Reconstructing, or Abandoning Faith
I regularly cross paths with people who were once evangelical and/or fundamentalist Christians but now identify as atheists or agnostics....
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Lawrence Taylor
Feb 9, 20234 min read
I AM DR. JEKYLL. I AM MR. HYDE. SO ARE YOU.
The 1866 Gothic novella, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was an immediate success. He...
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