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Scott Hoezee

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Not Compatible with Life?

The past six days are to me a blur, and the ordinary way of remembering days past seems not to apply.  Anyone reading this who

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What’s a Preacher To Do?

It’s difficult for me to believe that it’s been now close to 8 years since I left my last congregation as pastor and weekly preacher.  

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Inevitable Surprises

On Easter Monday I caught the first 20 minutes of The Diane Rhem Show on NPR in which Diane was interviewing the Pulitizer Prize-winning novelist

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Churchward Turns

Understandably enough, the world’s attention last week centered on Rome and the elevation of a new pope.  Shoot, I’m not even Catholic and I had

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Wolf Calls

Ever since Star Wars was in the running back in 1978 when I was 14 years old I have watched the annual broadcast of the

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Immunized

Because I have been invited to teach a preaching course at a conference in Uganda this coming August, I recently paid a visit to the

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#helphimjesus

Two weeks ago I was privileged to sit in on a consultation on preaching hosted by my colleagues at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.   

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Solitaire Clarity

In a couple of months’ time the hit show “The Office” will be no more in terms of new episodes but it will doubtless live

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Our Only Comfort?

A pair of NY Times pieces in the past two weeks raise vital issues.   A week ago in an “On Religion” column, Samuel G. Freedman

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