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Pastor’s Ponderings – The Danger of Missing God

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Hey Glen Mar, Have you ever done this? I’ll be looking around the house for my car keys, checking the counter (where they should be), the end table, the kitchen, asking everyone if they have seen them, and then realize they were in my pocket the whole time. I was looking all over for them, but there they were. In…
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Pastor’s Ponderings – Brew & Belong

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Hey Glen Mar, One of the things I love about being part of a church like Glen Mar is that, over time, we move from attending to belonging. If you’ve been coming to Glen Mar for a while and are wondering what that next step might look like, I want to invite you to the Brew and Belong on Sunday,…
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Pastor’s Ponderings – Remembering Who We Are

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Last week, I came across a piece of news about AI that gave me goosebumps. For a moment, I had an unsettling feeling that something I had only seen in an old sci-fi movie had already arrived in our world. Recently, OpenAI conducted an interesting experiment. They gave a group of independent AI agents a time-limited web-search task. Later, researchers…
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Pastor’s Ponderings – Jesus Calls Us to Mercy

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Hey Glen Mar, I used to watch more automobile racing, especially NASCAR, but I have dabbled in Formula One as well. Either way, I’ve always found it remarkable how racecar drivers are able to remember exactly who wrecked them and when, even years later! They know who they need to pay back, and when the opportunity comes, they will know…
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Pastor’s Ponderings – Take Time to Rest

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Hey Glen Mar, This coming Monday is Labor Day, a day when we pause to recognize and celebrate the work of laborers and their contributions to our country. And it is a day off for many of us. We need days off. We were commanded to rest. All the way back in the book of Exodus, we can read that…
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