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Divine Reading for the First Sunday of Advent

December 1, 2022

This Advent our little nondenominational Bible church is taking time on Sunday mornings to sit quietly in the presence of the Word, patterning our time after a medieval practice that blends reading, contemplation, and prayer, called Lectio Divina.

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Shelved with: Reading the Word|| Word in Worship|| Word in Prayer
Tagged With: Holidays, Advent, Church Year, Lectio Divina
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Another Transfiguration

November 5, 2020

As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.

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Shelved with: Word in the World|| Community & Time|| Reading the Word|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Bible, Race, COVID-19, Pandemic, Transfiguration, BlackLivesMatter
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Purity & Love

February 14, 2014

“If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.”

So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.

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Shelved with: Reading the Word|| Word in the World|| Parenting|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Parenting, Psychology, Sex, Virtue, Valentine's Day, Marriage, Gender, Holidays
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Wounded & Holy

April 27, 2013

Of course there is woundedness, but there is holiness as well. How the two come together — not which one wins, but how they join — constitutes the unique and profound meaning of one’s life: the emergence out of the maelstrom of the true self, transformed in Christ.

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St. Patrick by Hamish Burgess

The Breastplate of St. Patrick

March 17, 2013

I bind unto myself the power /
Of the great love of the cherubim; /
The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour, /
The service of the seraphim, /
Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word, /
The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls, /
All good deeds done unto the Lord, /
And purity of virgin souls.

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Shelved with: Visions & Ventures|| Visual Arts|| Reading the Word|| Word in Worship|| Literature|| Word in Season
Tagged With: Holidays, arts, St. Patrick, prayer, celtic
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Epiphanies, Not Resolutions

January 13, 2013

These are the questions of the New Year, and of the Seasons of Winter & Epiphany, as the days grow long & longer: Are you still seeking? What is your guide? What gifts do you bring?

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| Reading the Word|| Word in Season|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Holidays, New Year's Day, Seasons, Church Year, Epiphany
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