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Psalm 80: A thousand words from the English countryside
One of my great pleasures while traveling is to visit both art galleries and markets in hopes of discovering a picture of the area that captures some dimension or moment of my experience in the place. This last trip to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Words, clouds of witnesses, light, pause button, Psalm, Shepherd
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I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, * till I make known your strength to this generation and your power to all who are to come.
I’ve been away from ministry for awhile and the distance I’ve felt from the work has been unsettling, though during my travels I was blessed with opportunities to pastor and even lead a liturgy and prayers in one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged clouds of witnesses, Daily Office, entheos, glorify, God's church, Holy Spirit, lectionary readings, my story his glory, pause button
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Blindness, the War on Cancer, and the Seven Dwarves – Thinking about Sin
John 9:1 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ 3Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born … Continue reading
John 11:1-45: Locating Jesus in a ‘Where’s-Waldo-like’ story
John 11:1-45 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was … Continue reading
Be pleased o God, to deliver…baby, today?
Psalm 70: 1 Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; * O Lord, make haste to help me. 2 Let those who seek my life be ashamed and altogether dismayed; * let those who take pleasure in my misfortune draw … Continue reading
Lent as Eton, not Waterloo
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Tagged Christian formation, devil, fast, Holy Spirit, Jesus, matthew, prayer, scripture, WORD
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It’s all good: identifying the clutter of ‘shoulds’
164 Seven times a day do I praise you, * because of your righteous judgments. The image that came to mind at this verse from this morning’s psalm, (Psalm 119 in praise of the Law), was a scene from a … Continue reading
Chin to Nose: Hints to help me see the whole picture and to hear what the Spirit is saying
You will probably have come across examples of pictographic ambiguity before, where a single drawing has more than one ‘image’ contained within it, depending on how you look at it. This picture, My wife and my mother-in-law is a particularly good … Continue reading
President Trump: Really? How is this possible? Fret not, we are in God’s hands
9 Woe to you who strive with your Maker, earthen vessels with the potter!*Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? 10 Woe to anyone who says to … Continue reading
Never on Sunday: Rejoice, this is the day the Lord has made!
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2Indeed, by faith* our ancestors received approval.3By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made … Continue reading