prayer
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We All Need Counseling
We all need a helper, a teacher, a mentor, a counselor. I’m grateful that EVERY ONE of us has been invited to such a person. …My prayer: “Dear Jesus, thank you that because of you, everyone of us can have a right relationship with our Creator. Thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit…
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3 Ways to Pray the Ordinary
“Many of us today live in a kind of inner apartheid. We segregate out a small corner of pious activities and then can make no spiritual sense out of the rest of our lives. We have become so accustomed to this way of living that we fail to see the contradiction in it. We overcome…
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My Prayer for My Beloved Canada on Her Birthday!
God, I pray for my country of Canada on her birthday today! Thank you for the freedom we enjoy. May we be wise stewards of it, careful to show your love and light to those around us. Protect our leaders, policemen, firemen, doctors and nurses, peacekeepers, teachers, moms, dads, pastors, volunteers… all those given responsibility…
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Lenten Reading for Palm Sunday, the Sixth Sunday in Lent:
Light two candles. God made very sure that we could understand who He is, what He is like, and what He wants for and from us. He did this by sending his Son, Jesus. Now we don’t have just the written Word, we have the Living Word—a real person. When people watched Jesus, they were…
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Lenten Reading for the Second Sunday in Lent:
Light six candles before reading. God created people for relationship, for His glory. He gave them everything they could need or want. But they listened to the enemy’s lies instead. They no longer believed God’s gifts were enough. They turned their backs on God and lost their place in perfect friendship with Him. Now they…
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Lenten Reading for the First Sunday of Lent:
The 6 weeks before Easter is called the “Lenten season”. The word Lent is from an old English word related to “lenthen”, and meant springtime, when the days are lengthening. We use it to refer to the days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Lent is a process of prayer and spiritual renewal. Join me…
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O Come O Come Emmanuel (Prayer)
An Advent Prayer based on the Christmas Carol, “O Come O Come Emmanuel” Have you ever stopped to ponder the lyrics for “O Come O Come Emmanuel”? A few days ago I did stop to ponder in order to write the Welcome Prayer for our 4th Advent service this morning. First, here are the lyrics…
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Sabbatical Learnings: Lesson One Wrecked Me
This first lesson of sabbatical completely wrecked me… I’ve heard that the greatest theologians of our time, who ponder all the wonderful questions of theology, are often impacted most deeply of the love of God. I use to smile at this knowing a preschooler could get it. Yet, the first half of my sabbatical I…
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Daily Prompts With Jesus
While on sabbatical, I learned to practice the presence of God all through my day. I had learned about this over 20 years ago, but over sabbatical I got to dig in deeper. I put the following prompts in my phone to remind me… Others have adopted this and have found it a valuable practice.…
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3 Tips To Jump Start Your Prayer Life | Church Volunteer Central
Praying can be the most difficult when we need it the most. Here are three ideas to help you pray—even when you don’t feel like it! Such a simple post but so effective… http://www.churchvolunteercentral.com/uncategorized/3-tips-to-jump-start-your-prayer-life/
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 