What does it mean to be a light? How good do I have to be? How shiny?
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Driving on the highways of Texas and New Mexico, the neon crosses and stark billboards would loom in the distance for miles before you could read them: “Jesus Saves.” Or in the street, at a park, or at a public event, a stranger with a handful of tracts might ask, “Are you saved?” For most of my life, and especially…
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The first hymn I ever loved was “Fairest Lord Jesus,” in our hymnal as “Beautiful Savior” (ELW 838). Having not been raised in the church, then coming home from summer camp wanting to find out everything I could about God, I listened to the Christian radio station in Houston. Mixed in there with a lot of very bad theology and political…