Tag Archives: Spirit

What’s in a number?

The lectionary moved from Numbers to Deuteronomy today, but it was a number in the Deuteronomy passage that popped out from the page and sent me on a bunny trail: 3In the fortieth year, on the first day of the … Continue reading

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Asking the right (write?) questions

He:  “You look like a person who gives all their heart.” She:  “It’s hard to give less, you know.” …and later, from her, ” I gave all my heart outright and I’m still waiting for Him to make Himself at … Continue reading

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Just stop already!

Sometimes, I want Paul to stop – stop rambling – stop inserting into his letters contextual particularities and examples that distract from what the Spirit is saying about God, salvation, faith, judgment.  Maybe it was the lawyer in him that … Continue reading

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Cloud cover as guide…am I seeing clearly?

Numbers 9:17-18 17Whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, then the Israelites would set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the Israelites would camp. 18At the command of the Lord the Israelites would set … Continue reading

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…he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it…

I like gospel stories that have Jesus in real dialogue with the disciples in which  the earnest, bright, engaged, intentional Jesus tries out yet a different way to make his point  In today’s story he is saying, “Look, I know … Continue reading

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Blazing but not consumed

I once heard from a head master of a high school that the pursuit of knowledge  – learning for learning’s sake was not enough…that listening and discernment were key to the westernized ideal that ‘knowledge is power.’  He went on … Continue reading

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Take His WORD at His WORD

That’s what Jesus is saying in the final parable (Mt 7:22-28) of the Sermon on the Mount – which began, mind you, two chapters before and with the Beatitudes.  Take me – Jesus – son of our Creator, Abba Father, … Continue reading

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Worrier? Not so much…but

Matthew 6:34 ¶ “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today. A worrier I am not and never have been. And because I don’t tend toward worry or … Continue reading

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Every cell of my being…Word and Worship draw us into deeper connection with HIM

He calls on us to allow HIM to penetrate every cell of our beings.  That’s what I heard the Spirit reminding in today’s psalm: Psalm 16:8-9   8 I keep the LORD always before me; because he is at my right … Continue reading

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And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said,”Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given

“Cut!  Let’s do it again.” If this were a scene from a movie, it is right here where I see the director stepping in to make all the difference in the world for how this scene will be played out … Continue reading

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