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O Lord God, I hear you calling! Away, you rolling river! Yes, far away I hear you calling

(Please click arrow to play so you can share with me the real sense of God calling us, letting us know we are prayed for in love and faithfulness) A joyful longing to see a loved one or loved place. … Continue reading

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No room for self-righteousness at the inn

Praise of thanksgiving.  That’s it.  The bombastic insults you are hurling at my people, especially your people – your family – that will not do. This is what I heard the Spirit saying to God’s people in the words of Psalm … Continue reading

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Let go, let God – the one and only contractor we need

Do you hire contractors to do the work God has offered to do for you?  How’s that going? Perhaps the landscape of your life looks a bit like this?  Scattered bits of this and that, unconnected and unfinished, untouched, and … Continue reading

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Rhyme and Reason for the Season

Headed into this second week of Advent I was disappointed to see that the New Testament readings were going to join the past week’s Old Testament readings in the prophetic theme of final judgment, the last days, doom, gloom, the … Continue reading

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Head in the clouds, hearing with my heart

  Matthew 17:5 While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!” 6 When the disciples heard this, … Continue reading

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Trials, Paths, God’s plans and delight in being where I am to be

Psalm 16: 1 Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you; * I have said to the Lord, “You are my Lord, my good above all other.” 2 All my delight is upon the godly that are in … Continue reading

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Hanging 10 God’s way through

Psalm 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, * and he led them through the deep as through a desert. I like this image and never ever tire of being reminded of the truth embodied in it- … Continue reading

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Invoke the name of the Lord? No ‘buts’ about it…

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel,and who came forth from the loins* of Judah; who swear by the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth or right. 2 For they call … Continue reading

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Sitting on the job and inside voices

53Then each of them went home, 81 while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. (John … Continue reading

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(Praise) Music to my ears

That’s what the readings ushered in this morning…music to my ears that brought….well, tears. Praise Music on the most authentic, grandest scale. Nothing contrived when God’s Word is put to music and used liturgically, in worship, as a corporate prayer, a response to … Continue reading

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