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The Depth of Sundays
The depth and richness of a Sunday / Sabbath is created by how we behave on the other six days of the week; they are the journey or pilgrimage to Sunday! Enjoy reading the following books to learn more: The Rest of God by Mark Buchanan Keeping the Sabbath Wholly by Marva J Dawn…
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Sabbath Eve Prayer
One of the things I learned months ago from reading Marva J Dawn’s “Keeping The Sabbath Wholly” is to intentionally prepare our hearts and minds on the “Eve of Sabbath” (Saturday night) before we gather to worship on Sunday morning. Too often we rush into church with our minds set for self-idolatry. I found this…
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Have Patience
As I’m praying for a friend this morning to have patience, this childhood song is now in my head… 🙂
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Calvary is Like Judo
“Calvary is Judo. The enemy’s own power is used to defeat him… Satan’s end was God’s means. God won Satan’s captives – us – back to himself by freely dying in our place.” – Peter Kreeft
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Holding On To Your Own Pleasurable Imaginings
“Maybe we wonder if God can take all that goes on in our mind and heart. Maybe we simply want to hold on to our own pleasurable imaginings, afraid that in showing them to our Lord, we may have to give them up. Thus, we are constantly tempted to fall back… out of fear or…
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Don’t Over Analyze Yourself
A good reminder for me as I seek to transition healthily into my sabbatical… It’s all about my focus… “Know yourself” is good advice. But to know ourselves doesn’t mean to analyze ourselves. Sometimes we want to know ourselves as if we were machines that could be taken apart and put back together at will.…
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A Thousand Ways to Kill Jesus
Who in your life told you the truth about yourself so clearly that you wanted to kill them for it? …Who in your life has represented Jesus Christ in your life? True friends love you in truth, show you the way and want you to know full life… so much that they’re willing to die…
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Stay Awake.
Watch, learn, act. Watch for God at work. Do not miss Him as the world does as it dozes with day-dreaming, self-pity, gluttony, boredom, fighting,… Lost is the opportunity to be alert to God at work, alert through renewal, reading, prayer, teaching, service to the needy, justice and peace-making… Keep awake and watch. Learn all…
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True Intimacy Is My Desire : My Sabbatical Longing
This is my heart’s desire, what I long for in my sabbatical and beyond… And for each of my church family… to truly know Jesus intimately. Lyrics below YouTube clip… “True Intimacy” Whatever I hold There’s nothing compares To having You close True intimacy is my desire To catch Your whispers To carry Your fire…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 