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What Has God Given You to Do?
As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to…
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When Knowledge Becomes an Idol
1 CORINTHIANS 8:1-13 1Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; 3but anyone who loves God is known by him. 4Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we…
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Stay With Me
The biggest mass lynching in the history of America began with a murder in 1890. David Hennessy, the police chief of New Orleans, was assassinated outside his home as he returned from a meeting. Soon the city and country were transfixed by the gripping trial that followed, with headlines not only in local news but…
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Mother Mary, Full of Guts
I have been thinking a lot about Mary lately, and I suppose it is inevitable. I mean, it *IS* Advent, and this is practically the only season that Protestants pay attention to the Mother of God. The rest of the year, not so much. Anyways, I was reading and praying over the Magnificat, and, like…
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Rend the Heavens
I recently heard it said that poetry goes to the places that our theology cannot, and there is a certain (poetic?) truth to that. During Advent season, poetry seems especially appropriate for exploring the concepts of light and darkness, hope and despair. In that spirit, I am loving this poem right now, shared by a…
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Resistance is Fertile
When I was a child, I was deathly afraid of fire. I’m not sure what started, it; perhaps it had something to do with the raging furnace that consumed a barn on my parent’s property as I lay blissfully asleep when I was six years old, but I cannot be sure. What I do know…
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An Alternative Translation of Judges 4: 1-24
Having some fun with Hebrew today… This is my own (admittedly, limited) translation of Judges 4, the story of Deborah the Judge’s deliverance of Israel through the hand of Barak and Jael. The Struggling People of God again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud (The Lonely Judge) died. So the Lord sold…
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Sustaining the Light
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became…
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The Sin of Omission
Matthew 25:14-30 The Parable of the Three Servants “At that time the Kingdom of heaven will be like this. Once there was a man who was about to leave home on a trip; he called his servants and put them in charge of his property. He gave to each one according to his ability: to…
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The Story We Tell
It was such an inspiring story. In the mid-nineties, an American medic hikes down the mountain after failing to summit K2, the second tallest mountain in the world. On his way down, he gets lost, and ultimately finds himself in a small, remote village in Pakistan, where he is welcomed by the villagers and cared…
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