Presenting Our Bodies

“Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.  No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.  For sin […]

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To Preach or Not to Preach?

This week, my husband John and I are at Princeton Theological Seminary as fellows of the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.  In an effort to strengthen my vocational identity and to further understand this known and yet unknown calling to Christ’s ministry, I have come with other pastors, clergy and ministry leaders from across […]

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To Know Christ

“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” ~Matthew […]

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Jesus, The Amen

In his second letter to the Corinthians and in its first chapter, we find a series of seemingly disjointed statements.  Paul begins by blessing God for consoling him, thanking God for delivering him from the affliction experienced in Asia, and then he begins to talk to them about his delay regarding travel.  It is during […]

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The Lesson Plans of Christ

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” ~ Second Corinthians 5.17, KJV I cannot say what will be left of us.  Our lives as disciples of Jesus Christ are filled with both lessons learned and unlearned.  Christ while teaching […]

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