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Eggs over easily
I was co-officiating at Evening Prayer this past weekend at a spiritual retreat – a retreat where all the attendees were long time lay and ordained ministers of God’s church. I hadn’t done Morning or Evening Prayer in community regularly … Continue reading
Love _______like Jesus does
Acts 3:1 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon. 2And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the … Continue reading
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We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves
Romans 15:1 We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2Each of us must please our neighbour for the good purpose of building up the neighbour. 3For Christ did not please … Continue reading
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Tagged church, lectionary readings, love, neighbor, self-righteous, worship
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Wake up calls from Jesus
Matthew 26:41Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial;* the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ I think this admonition from a grieving Jesus to his friends who fell asleep while he … Continue reading
No blue? Perceiving is believing
14 But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? 15And how … Continue reading
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Tagged context, eyes, Faith, God, Gospel, hear, Holy Spirit, lectionary readings, scripture, see, Spirit, WORD
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Getting unstuck, changing the tire and moving into the open place
If I had ever had the discipline of memorizing scripture this would be a verse from today’s Psalm 18 that I would like to have mastered. It would lie in the top tray of my scriptural tool box where I … Continue reading
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Tagged eyes, God, Holy Spirit, lectionary readings, Lord, self-righteous, the broad place, Ugh
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CIP, Kaizen and Sanctification
Romans 6: 22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. I’ve come to think of sanctification as the process of continuous improvement. At our baptism our individual lives – … Continue reading
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Tagged epistle, Jesus, journey, law, lectionary readings, WORD, worship
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Bearing with one another in love
I spent yesterday afternoon with a friend who had been referred that morning by his physician to Hospice. Treatment is no longer an option for his condition. It was now time to make him comfortable – treat the symptoms of … Continue reading
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Tagged church, Holy Spirit, journey, lectionary readings, love, ministry, pray, time, WORD, worry
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We are what God has made us and Jesus is our way of life
Ephesians 2:10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life. Paul’s last line in today’s passage from his letter to the Ephesians would have … Continue reading
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All your works praise you, O Lord including the skies over Southern California
Psalm 145: 9 The Lord is loving to everyone * and his compassion is over all his works. 10 All your works praise you, O Lord, * and your faithful servants bless you. 11 They make known the glory … Continue reading
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