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Devotional of the week: Transformed (8 in Pilgrim series)
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be…
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Lenten Poems – A Wedding Feast (7)
I wonder how the disciples felt when they watched Jesus turn water into wine for a great wedding celebration. So much symbolism, especially as we think about the wedding of the Lamb, the Lover and Beloved, God and the church. The wine poured out is his blood, shed for our redemption. May you know the…
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Home of the Heart by Penelope Swithinbank
I’m delighted to welcome Penelope Swithinbank to the “There’s No Place Like Home” series. I knew of Penelope before I knew her, for she and her husband arrived at my former home church in Virginia shortly after I moved to her native England. They now run a gorgeous-looking retreat centre that I long to visit…
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Lenten Poems – Questions and Answers (6)
Questions and answers. The questions – who was this? The answers – he knew their name. He saw who they were at their essence. So does he with us today. He calls us by name. He knows us.
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Lenten Poems – Look and See! (5)
“Look and see!” says John the Baptist. He who had been given a special grace of seeing the unseen called those around him to open their eyes and see. To know that this Jesus was God’s Chosen One, the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us,…
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Lenten Poems – In the Wilderness (4)
John the Baptist, heralding the Way.
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Devotional of the week: Gifts now; gifts later (7 in Pilgrim series)
Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!” “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers,…
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Lenten Poems – The World Made Flesh (3)
Jesus the Word, dwelling among us and making the Father known. Jesus who brings us grace and freedom and salvation. Jesus, without whom we would not observe Lent.
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Two homes, 12,000 miles apart by Bev Murrill
I met the engaging and encouraging Bev Murrill when I was a commissioning editor for Authentic Media. Although I didn’t end up getting to work with her on publishing her next book, I’m delighted that a friendship was born. She’s speaks life and love whether online or in person. I remember our first lunch, how…
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Lenten Poems – Born of God (2)
If we believe, we’re born of God. An awe-inspiring thought at the beginning of our Lenten journey. What does being born of God mean to you?
