Tag: Devotional writing
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Light Within
I have been away from writing because of eye surgeries. I have a new appreciation for inner light. I will do a couple of entries about the lessons God is reminding me of. Here’s the first…..
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Lament
I was angry with God once and I wrote a Jeremiah style lament once when I was angry and had discovered what a lament is really for. It’s really odd to be angry at God and at the same time know he is the only way out.
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What the World Needs
So, now, in the a new year what is it that our world need? A phrase in Sunday’s sermon sent me off on the well visited bunny trail. What the world needs is ….
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Come
Merry and Blessed Christmas to you all. Here’s a invitation to come to the celebration. It’s a couple of years old, but the expression is a real today as then.
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Seeking and Accepting
‘Seekers’ is a good term used to talk about people who are looking for real answers and have come to the contemporary church to find out about God. But believers have always been seekers. We work at it. We seek God’s face, his presence, and the truth of His word. But perhaps it’s not as…
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Give Us This Day
The Lord’s Prayer is very rich, and full of gems of wisdom as well as the model we have taken for prayer. Mine them…. as i did I found a comforting, yet powerful idea…
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ON THE WAY
It dawned on me today the gospel account of Jesus stopping to help the lady who touched the hem of his garment when he was on the way to help someone else, he was living out his parable of the man set upon by thieves and left on the side of the road. Most passed…
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Perspectives
The first of the year always sets me to considering if I need to put thing into a new (I hope) perspectives. It is not just an exercise experts tell us we need to do. Sometimes it has changed my emotional health as well changed the things I put my energies into.
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