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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.…
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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.
