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If you’re a young pastor, chances are you’re electronically connected: emailing, text messaging, Facebook, all the day long.  And you know this has an addictive quality. The brain is wired to be alert and curious about any new information.  And electronic media delivers!  We consume triple the daily information that we did (er, I did) in 1960.  While new media brings myriad advantages, you know in your bones that it’s also a curse: a steady stream of white noise that leaves you feeling a mile wide and an inch deep.
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Detroit Tiger pitcher, Armando Galarraga, had every right to call for Jim Joyce’s head on a platter.  Joyce, the first plate umpire, blew the call on what would have been the final out of a perfect game.

After the game, Galarraga expressed his respect for Joyce as a first-rate umpire and let him off the hook with a simple and poignant, “Nobody’s perfect.”  Kind words from a man who had just pitched a perfect game ruined by an imperfect call.
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As the engineers seek to contain the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, how do we get our hearts around what’s happening there?

An ancient take on the world around us might help.  Few people seem to notice that in the creation account of Genesis, chapter one, God blessed the sea creatures and the birds of the air—the very creatures affected by the British Petroleum oil spill—first.
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