Author

Tom Sims

@tomsims

articles: 47
total claps: 955
top claps: 89
avg read: 4.6 min
paywalled: 42
active: 2022-12-20 → 2026-07-17

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#psalms ·5 #psalm-18 ·4 #writing ·4 #christianity ·3 #freedom-of-religion ·2 #music ·2 #existentialism ·2 #spirituality ·2 #war ·2 #jesus ·2

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How Should Christians Pray When There Is War?

In every generation there seems to come a moment when the world holds its breath.

Mar 05, 2026 · 5 min read · 89 claps paywalled #bethel #renewal #realignment

How Should Christians Pray When There Is War?

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Getting Out the Door

Sometimes early, sometimes late, rarely right on time

Feb 20, 2026 · 1 min read · 85 claps paywalled #rush #hurry #start

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What Soils My Soil

From the Heart

Oct 25, 2025 · 3 min read · 60 claps paywalled #sin #evil #thoughts

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When Nations Become Religions

Why Religious Nationalism Is Dangerous — No Matter Which Religion Claims the Flag

May 22, 2026 · 5 min read · 55 claps paywalled #nationalism #pluralism #christian-culture

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Ecclesiastes and the Existential Long Sigh

Ancient Wisdom for Secular Thinkers, Seekers, Skeptics, and the Rest of Us

Jun 06, 2026 · 8 min read · 50 claps paywalled #existentialism #philosophy #the-meaning-of-life

Ecclesiastes and the Existential Long Sigh

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Do It Poorly Until You Learn to Do It Well

The strange partnership between imperfect action, mental rehearsal, and corrected practice

Jun 12, 2026 · 4 min read · 50 claps paywalled #writing #creativity #personal-development

Do It Poorly Until You Learn to Do It Well

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What Should a Preacher Look Like?

Someone asked what a preacher should look like.

Jul 05, 2026 · 3 min read · 50 claps paywalled #preaching #pastor #christian-leadership

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Notable Lives: Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Woman Who Wrote with Her Heart’s Blood

Jun 05, 2026 · 3 min read · 50 claps paywalled #notable-lives #writers-on-writing #writing

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Bar None

A playful meditation on jokes, justice, standards, and one old poem that keeps calling from the shore

Jun 11, 2026 · 3 min read · 50 claps paywalled #wordplay #language #humor

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Diving In

A reflection on faith, risk, learning, urgency, opportunity, and the difference between dabbling at the edge and diving into living water.

Jun 04, 2026 · 3 min read · 50 claps paywalled #faith #christianity #spirituality

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Deliver It Salty Side Down

The Small Details People Remember

Jun 09, 2026 · 3 min read · 50 claps paywalled #marketing #advertising #customer-experience

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My Favorite Day Is Today — At Least, Today It Is!

Tomorrow Is Another.

May 05, 2026 · 2 min read · 50 claps paywalled #today-in-history #today #your-best-day

My Favorite Day Is Today — At Least, Today It Is!

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My Rock — Psalm 18

“I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield…

Jul 11, 2024 · 22 min read · 45 claps paywalled #psalm-18 #psalms #prayer

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Markings

What is being written in the dash?

May 28, 2026 · 4 min read · 39 claps paywalled #graveyard #tombstone #measure-of-life

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I Can Leap Over

I can leap over a wall.

Aug 29, 2024 · 1 min read · 24 claps paywalled #challenges-in-life #life #psalm-18

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Risen Indeed

“Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the…

Apr 20, 2025 · 2 min read · 17 claps paywalled #risen #resurrection #jesus

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Peace in Violent Times

These are violent times.

Feb 05, 2025 · 1 min read · 12 claps paywalled #peace #peacebuilding #peace-pilgrim

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Notable Lives: Bishop James Theodore Holly

There are lives we overlook, yet their influence quietly surrounds us.

Mar 14, 2026 · 4 min read · 11 claps paywalled #bishop-james-holly #episcopal-church #haiti

Notable Lives: Bishop James Theodore Holly

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The Poinsettia

“…Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him.” — Matthew 2:2

Dec 20, 2022 · 2 min read · 11 claps paywalled #poinsettias #history-of-the-poinsettia #pepita

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Remembering Stephen Foster

I am making this Stephen Foster Memorial Day to commemorate the day he died in 1864. What sad and beautiful songs he wrote.

Jan 13, 2025 · 1 min read · 11 claps #stephen-foster #american-music #music

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Called and Calling to Come and Be Prepared

The First Sunday of Advent

Nov 30, 2025 · 7 min read · 10 claps #advent #swords-into-ploughshares #darkness

Called and Calling to Come and Be Prepared

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Tyranny

Tyrants need to know that their evil has an expiration date.

Dec 15, 2025 · 3 min read · 10 claps paywalled #tyrant #tyranny #psalm-52

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The Narrow Way Is Not What You Think

In my weekly sermon preparation, I had to wrestle with Jesus’ words about the “narrow gate” and the “hard road” in Matthew 7.

Feb 22, 2026 · 2 min read · 10 claps paywalled #narrow-way #kingdom-of-god #focus

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Truly With Us!

Truly, God Is with Us

Dec 25, 2025 · 2 min read · 10 claps #christmas #joy-to-the-world #emmanuel

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You Cannot Force a Human Heart

I used to teach traffic school.

Mar 31, 2026 · 2 min read · 10 claps paywalled #crusades #forced-conversion #church-and-state