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Lenten Poems – Jesus and the Father (14)
The relationship between Jesus and the Father has been pondered by the Christian greats throughout the ages. We see in today’s poem how Jesus answers some of his critics.
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Devotional of the week: Our flimsy tent (9 in Pilgrim series)
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we…
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Lenten Poems – At Bethesda (13)
Do you want to be well? What a question to ponder this Monday in Lent.
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Lenten Poems – No honor in his country (12)
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Lenten Poems – Noon at Jacob’s Well (11)
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At Home Away from Home by Sharon Garlough Brown
We can be at home with members of the family of God, wherever in the world we find ourselves. What an amazing truth and gift, as Sharon Brown so movingly writes this week in our home series. I rave about her novels in the Sensible Shoes series, in which her characters live out the spiritual…
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Lenten Poems – Becoming Lesser (10)
John the Baptist, in his words and in his life, prepared the way for the Lord. How are you preparing the way for the Lord during this season of Lent?
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Lenten Poems – Born Again (9)
The first chunk of John 3 is filled with truth and life and seeming mysteries and contradictions: How can an adult be born again? How are we born of the Spirit? Why did God send his Son to die? Why do those doing evil seek darkness over the light? For those who have ears to…
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America is…
Ouch, I commented, when a friend shared a poem by the British poet Brian Bilston, “America is a Gun.” (It’s posted on his public Facebook page here.) My reaction was visceral, for guns bring forth so many emotions from Americans. I’ve shot a gun before – at a target, mind – but that fact might…
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Lenten Poems – In My Father’s House (8)
As we see in today’s reading, Jesus called for true worship of his Father. We can picture the ruckus he must have caused among the people in Jerusalem, with all the gossip and discussion afterward – not only of driving out the merchants, but in his cryptic remark about raising the temple in three day.…
