Tag: Lent

Take the Load Off

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“The cross is a contradiction to the world and pertains to public policy just as it pertains to personal well- being.” | Walter Brueggeman, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent “Give us a sign!”  This is the demand not only of the Pharisees in Jesus’ day but in our own.  While it […]

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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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Give up stereotypes for Lent

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“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.  And being found in human form, he humbled himself […]

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