Category: Meditation

Take the Lead

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“I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious anti-neighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism that devours creation. And then an arrival in a new neighborhood, because it is a gift to be […]

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Take the Time

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Busy.  Busy.  Busy.  It has become the hum that sounds throughout American life and dare I say, the world.  Now, we wrestle to make time for the Eternal.  We struggle to squeeze the omnipresent God into overcrowded schedules, to follow Christ in overcommitted lives.  We have signed up for newsletters, coupons and alerts.  We have […]

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Return

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Return “…You are dust,     and to dust you shall return.” | Genesis 3.19, NRSV Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, the forty- day period where believers fall in step with Christ’s journey to the cross.  It is an exodus from excess.  We strip bare our lives from distractions that would take our […]

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Hand Me Down

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We don’t have to go far to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.  So often, conversations about conversion assume that those who need to hear the gospel are in far- away lands, that we have to cross the ocean to deliver the message.  But, evangelism does not require a passport.  No need to learn a […]

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When God comes to town

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God is not a superhero.  Cape exchanged for swaddling clothes, he does give us the image of strength.  He cannot leap over tall buildings.  His parents can’t even find a place to give birth to him. He will cry out for help before the crowds do.  He will not be waving, taking pictures and signing autographs.  […]

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