Hans Anderson

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What Abraham Said to Rock my World

I just spent a couple of days in Washington, D.C. for work.  One afternoon, having my hotel two blocks from the White House, I walked around the Golden Triangle and the National Mall and took in the public sites. I’ve done this before, seen most everything, even a few things that people who live in [...]

What Sin Is

A few years ago my pastor’s wife did the sermon.  She’s a good speaker, just like he is, and she has been a big influence on his life and it’s good to hear her speak.  She always seems so squeaky clean. And she is.  In fact, this particular time she spoke, she talked about times [...]

A round-about way that might prove to you there is a God

Okay, so maybe you have doubts once-in-awhile.  Maybe you are a full-on non-believer.  At some point a lot of us might say “is this real? How do I really know?” In Shawn Albright’s Friday morning group at Mission 911 we were recently discussing spiritual warfare, especially the writing in Ephesians about putting on your spiritual [...]

Drinking

I was talking to a newcomer in our ministry the other day. He called because he was having some struggles and wanted to talk. Unfortunately, he was in the post-struggle regret stage, a stage I’m highly familiar with. For me, it would go like this: I’m stressed. I’m going to have a beer. One more [...]

Frustrated!

I just got a call from a friend.  He woke up on a Monday morning, things were going well, then he tried to move a sprinkler before he left for work, had trouble, and got all frustrated. He called me to vent a little, but also to be talked down from his frustration.  He did [...]