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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
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
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
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
…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
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
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
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
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