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The ultimate promise
Springtime is such a hopeful, joyful season– new sprouts come to dead wood new colors bloom in tired landscapes The spring season in our life is also full of joy– a new marriage a new baby and full of...
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Speaking of all things new
…what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life if gone, a new life burgeons! II Corinthians 5:17 The Message I heard someone point out recently how...
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Speaking of praising God
“Man is one of your creatures, Lord, and his instinct is to praise You…The thought of You stirs him so deeply that he cannot be content unless he praises You, because You made us for Yourself and our...
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Patches of Godlight: from the gift to the Giver
For several years now, every morning I spend a few minutes writing down things I am thankful for. I don’t find it difficult to come up with a half dozen or more every day. The items range from the...
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Speaking of learning to thank the Giver
“To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent...
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Post it: God at work
The humble post-it played a supporting role in a movie I recently saw, “Still Alice”, about a college professor who develops early-onset Alzheimer’s. To help jog her memory, Alice begins to post...
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Speaking of don’t forget
“I am struck by the reason given for Israel’s frequent slides into idolatry. We are told that, over and over, they forgot what God had done for them, and began to worship other gods. Doesn’t it seem...
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God’s incredible edible gifts
Tomorrow is the American celebration of Thanksgiving. Like many holidays, we’ve come very far from the original intent of the pilgrim feast. It’s now a time to travel to one’s family, or to invite...
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Speaking of food, glorious food
My favorite mealtime grace these days [sung to the theme from Superman]: Thank you Lord, for giving us food (actions: raise right arm overhead as Superman flying) Thank you Lord, for giving us food...
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Epiphany: the light of life
“Grant us your light, O Lord, that the darkness in our hearts being wholly passed away, we may come at last to the light which is Christ. For Christ is the morning star, who when the night of this...
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Speaking of finding sanctuary, part one
Casablanca, Morocco You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek You; I thirst for You, my whole being longs for You, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen You in the sanctuary and...
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Speaking of finding sanctuary, part two
“It is I, speaks the Christ, I am he who puts Death to death, and stands above the fallen enemy, crushes Hades to bland chalk, binds the dark powers, and bears all humankind up to heavenly peaks. Yes,...
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Christmas in July!!!
Maybe it is a greed on my part, this desire I have to celebrate Christmas again, six months after December 25th. Or maybe it reveals a desire to live outside the constraints of time, to deny that I...
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Speaking of Christmas
“God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form…The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.”...
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Songs for Saturday: Don’t You Want to Thank Someone
In between American Thanksgiving and the beginning of Advent, this song [another one by Andrew Peterson] speaks of the tension between good gifts and living in the ‘not yet’: Can’t you feel it in your...
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Speaking of the One Thing We Need To Do For Easter
I don’t share the following quote lightly. The next few days are some of the busiest of the year for me. But this encourages me to find and take the time in the midst of serving and participating, to...
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Songs for Saturday: Just a Glimpse
A song that talks about how we don’t have to fully know who God is to worship Him. “Just a glimpse” by Israel Houghton “I don’t have to fully know Just how far Your love can go To sing of Your love for...
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Speaking of You looking at me
“”When all of my effort is turned towards You because all of Your effort is turned toward me; when I look to You alone with all my attention, and don’t turn aside the eyes of my mind because You enfold...
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Speaking of little flying dinosaurs
“Prayer in Thanks for the Little Flying Dinosaurs We Call Dragonflies Because they are unbelievably cool, that’s why, and we casually glance at them when they whiz past, and rarely if ever sit down in...
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Speaking of being still
Flickering Mind by Denise Leterov “Lord, not you, it is I who am absent At first belief was a joy I kept in secret, stealing alone into sacred places: a quick glance, and away-and back, circling I...
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