Knowing God
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Easter Song: Jesus is Alive : Rain for Roots – YouTube (Ellie Holcomb)
This is a song from a great little kids album called Rain for Roots. Making new songs, for children, about the old Story. You can listen to the whole album here: http://rainforroots.bandcamp.com/album/big-stories-for-little-ones
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Follow Jesus on the Stations of the Cross
Follow Jesus on the Stations of the Cross Enter a Gospel Scene to Participate in Resurrection Life I came across this wonderful reflection from Bill Gaultiere ~ SoulShepherding.org and passed it along to our worship pastor for help in crafting actual stations of the cross put up in our church. However, I will be using…
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Stuck Between Good Friday and Easter Sunday?
With Jesus gone, the disciples were left with nothing but the memories and His words, neither of which seemed to be affecting them, for they huddled in fear on Saturday, having little faith in what He had promised. The disciples had painted their own picture and it was shattered. How about you? Do you find…
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Stark Naked Before God
The human heart is of pride. We would rather die than repent, rather lose ourselves than humble ourselves. But we cannot escape the embarrassment of one day standing stark naked before God. It is no use trying to cover up like Adam and Eve in the garden. Our attempts will be meaningless. We will have…
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Raw Before God (Prayer)
Prayer is basic language… honest, true, and personal. It is the means by which we get everything in our lives out in the open before God. Only as we develop raw honesty and detailed thoroughness in our praying do we become whole, truly human in Jesus Christ, who also prayed the Psalms. (Eugene Peterson) Just…
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Sabbath Celebration Using our Senses
Marva J Dawn in her book Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting on p.199 touched on celebrating God on Sundays using all our senses… I love this! Early on Palm Sunday morning, with our boys while sitting in the morning sun on our deck, we asked each other what we could sense around…
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What Brings You to Rest?
What gifts in your life enable you to rest? Perhaps it is beauty, music, nature, textures like blankets and quilts, food, the embrace of family and friends, or works of art? What kinds of things bring you to true rest? What things bring you into God’s presence? Most of all, meditation on God’s word…
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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…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 