Category Archives: Whispers

HEAR what the Spirit is saying to God’s people…

Pray like Jesus!

How should we pray? the disciples had asked Jesus during their walk with him.  At that time, before his resurrection, Jesus taught them the Lord’s Prayer.  And earlier in admonishing the Pharisees for praying publicly just to be seen as … Continue reading

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Following Jesus? God’s hand upon me?

From the Old Testament (Ezekiel 37:1)reading, today: The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley… I’ve been thinking about how … Continue reading

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Top 10 Reasons our Kids Leave Church

A Facebook friend shared the attached blog article, Top 10 Reasons our Kids Leave Church.  His introduction to the piece I quote here: So I know not every evangelical church falls into this, and I know quite a few non-evangelical … Continue reading

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…now I am speaking to you Gentiles…

Romans 11: 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the rich root* of the olive tree, 18do not vaunt yourselves over the branches. If … Continue reading

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…the Father is in me and I am in the Father

38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand* that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.’ (John 10) Richard Rohr,  a Franciscan … Continue reading

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Groundhog day by your choice; not your abba Father’s…

As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His 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 blind … Continue reading

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A reason and a season all for good

Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. This first line of today’s epistle reading has been quoted to me often over the past few years … Continue reading

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Light shines through…finally

After completing today’s readings, I went to my scriptural  journal to wonder about hearing God’s Word and whether or not I hear it sometimes for other people.  Beginning with an abrupt stop at a specific word in the first psalm, … Continue reading

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I know where I have come from and where I am going

John 8:3Then the Pharisees said to him, ‘You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid.’ 14Jesus answered, ‘Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come … Continue reading

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Do you hear what I hear?

I hear the Holy Spirit in so many popular song lyrics – all genres, too…not just gospel or praise or hymns or so-called “Christian” music, though there, too. No, I hear the Holy Spirit so often in what are popularly … Continue reading

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