Unbidden and unexpected, Lent comes full of grace and truth, giving us time and space to face ourselves honestly and with hope, says the emerging-church pastor.
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Tim Keel
Tim Keel is the senior pastor and primary teaching pastor at Jacob’s Well Church in Kansas City, Mo. He has a BFA in design from the University of Kansas and an M.Div. from Denver Seminary. He is the author of “Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor and Chaos” (Baker, 2007).
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