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Lenten Poems – “I and the Father are One” (24)
Jesus speaks; Jesus heals; they pick up stones to kill him. We see the pattern again and again in John’s gospel – a sobering reminder of how Jesus is the fragrance of life to one and to another the stench of death.
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Home: Refuge and resource by Claire Musters
I can relate on many levels to Claire Musters’ wonderful contribution to the “There’s No Place Like Home” series today – loo seats left up and mud on the floors for one! But more importantly the tension of being married to a pastor and how that can change your approach to home, such as wanting…
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Lenten Poems – The Good Shepherd (23)
The words of Jesus. I’m loving spending time each day in John’s gospel, soaking in the words of Jesus. Today we think about the Good Shepherd and the sheep and the thieves who come to destroy. And how we as sheep listen to the Shepherd, for we know his voice. May you hear his voice…
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The freedom of boundaries
Freedom within the boundaries – an amazing thought. I never dreamed my home would be England for this many years, but here we are coming up to two decades and it is home. Where are your boundary lines? Where is home? I address these paradoxes in Finding Myself in Britain: Our Search for Faith, Home &…
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Lenten Poems – The Blind Will See (22)
Such controversy the teachers of the law got embroiled in over whether the man born blind was actually healed by Jesus. The man knew; his parents didn’t like to say; the religious leaders grew more incensed as Jesus exposed their spiritual blindness. What am I – what are you – not seeing today?
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Lenten Poems – Came Home Seeing (21)
Jesus had compassion on those who were limited physically, as we see in his healing the man blind from birth. He doesn’t hold back his grace or love; nor does he amend his answers to the teachers of the law to suit them – as we will see even more tomorrow. “I was blind but…
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Devotional of the week: Pilgrims by faith (10 in Pilgrim series)
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and…
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Lenten Poems – Free Indeed (20)
So much opposition Jesus faced. The teachers of the law misunderstood him, and as time went along, they grew more and more entrenched against him. Several of his key statements about himself come in chapter 8 – that he’s the light of the world, and that he’ll set us free. Freedom! Let’s claim it today.
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Lenten Poems – Throwing Stones (19)
Not everyone thought this moving story of who has the right to throw stones should be included in the Bible. For centuries it wasn’t, partly, historians think, because of a reticence over including such a story that concerns illicit sex (and note how the teachers of the law didn’t bring the man caught in the act…
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Lenten Poems – Living Water (18)
Living water, flowing from within. Cleansing water. Life-giving water. This we receive from God. This we share with a thirsty world.
