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Another heartbreakingly stunning red sky on my early morning commute to 8 AM worship through the Bay Area, where smoke from California’s most devastating fire in history, the Camp Fire, lingers over the Sonoma hills to the East. Compassionate God… Draw near to us in this time of sorrow and anguish, comfort those who mourn, strengthen those who are weary, encourage those in despair, and lead us all to fullness of life; through the same Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen #cloudsofwitnessessendrain#cloudsofwitnessesbeckoningmydrive #metaphorforministry #wheretoserve? #fallskiessoutherncaliforniaWelcome Fall. Though it doesn’t feel like such outside, appreciating the change of seasons and all that beckons outside my front door. #cloudsofwitnessesinseasonchange #houseschangetoo- Follow Trinity Seasons on WordPress.com
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Fine Robes, Copper Coins and Naked Ladies
Looks can be deceiving and blinding. How often we need the eyes of the other to see God’s presence in God’s church. In today’s gospel Jesus points to the scribes and priests fancy vestments as a way to distinguish them … Continue reading
The Happy Sower
Mark 4:1 Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the … 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
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
Micro focus fine but I find Jesus most often in the pano view
Luke 6:6 On another sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. 7The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they … Continue reading
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Family as Metaphor for God, the Gospel and Politics
Psalm 83:15 Drive them with your tempest * and terrify them with your storm; 16 Cover their faces with shame, O Lord, * that they may seek your Name. 17 Let them be disgraced and terrified for ever; * let them … Continue reading
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Tagged context, Father, God, lectionary readings, praise, Psalm, self-righteous, WORD
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My/Your/His/Her Story for God’s Glory
John 12:10So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well, 11since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus. My eyes lifted at this line in today’s … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Jesus, journey, lectionary readings, pause button, scripture
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What matters is not who baptizes you but into whom are you baptized
Paul* went on also to Derbe and to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek. 2He was well spoken of by the believers* … Continue reading
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Tagged BAPTISM, Book of Common Prayer, church, context, God, Jesus, lectionary readings, pause button, worship
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