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‘Wait’ is not a Four-Letter Word

By Dr. Scott Rodin | I have to admit I really hate the word ‘wait’.  It symbolizes waste.  We wait at stop lights, wait in doctor’s ‘waiting rooms’, wait in line at the grocery store, wait for checks to arrive in the mail, wait for apologies, wait for waiters to ... read on

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Where are the Prophets?

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Where are the Prophets?  We have become a nation dominated by antipathy on one side and apathy on the other.  We are either angry, divided and polarized or we have checked out and just don’t care much anymore.  The angry need to heal and the ... read on

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Work that Fills Us

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend a day working in a carpenter’s shop with Jesus? What would your day be like? I think Jesus would run his carpenter shop like every other carpenter shop.  He would not use any Holy Spirit ... read on

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Give Me Jesus

By Dr. Scott Rodin | It has been nearly a month since I have blogged.  Honestly, I have been struggling with spiritual dryness that has left me with little to share.  I have been searching for a way to recover the passion and perspective I had at the start of ... read on

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Getting out of the Maze

By Dr. Scott Rodin | If Jesus is ‘the way, the truth and the life” why do we so often feel like we have lost our way, become confused and end up just muddling through life?  Perhaps because our enemy wants to take us off the straight path and lure ... read on

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Secret Service Gets Ethics Training…What is Ethics Training????

By Dr. Scott Rodin | It was announced today that the solution to the moral mess in the Secret Service is to hire Johns Hopkins University to give them ethics training.  I am trying to imagine what that must look like.  I always thought that our ethics were the outward ... read on

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Thoughts on Easter – Three Testimonies You Will Never Hear

By Dr. Scott Rodin | “I spent ten years addicted to drugs and alcohol.  My life was wasting away.  I had tried to stop many times but the power of the addictions was just too great.  I was desperate, hopeless and in total despair. Then one day I discovered radical ... read on

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Has Good Friday Become Irrelevant?

By Dr. Scott Rodin | The decline of Christian influence in American culture can be traced directly to how we choose to commemorate Good Friday.  Too often we glance at Good Friday just long enough to remember the cross and sigh at the thought of the suffering savior, then move ... read on

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Holy Week Monday: All Things New – The Refreshment of Transformation

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2Co 5:17)  Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a ... read on

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Week #9: In His Time – The Refreshment of Patience

By Dr. Scott Rodin | But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. (Gal 4:4-5) There are a great number of verses in Scripture that speak of ... read on