Mother of the Bride (MOTB)from Robert Fulgham, It was on Fire When I Lay Down On It(the Presbyterian minister who wrote Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten) I have married more than a thousand times. Officiated as the minister at a whole lot of weddings and usually managed to get involved in […]
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May 30, 2017 Today I cleaned a clean carpet. My favorite kind. It looks great when I’m done. Of course, it looked pretty good before I started. Funny thing with these easy cleanups, the customer will come in after I’ve cleaned and say, “Oh my, what a difference. The colors are so much brighter!” I […]
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Prayer of Thanksgiving for Surprises For a friend’s unexpected call, for a letter unforeseen, for the sunlight bursting through thick clouds, for a porpoise frolicking in the water, for seals basking in the sun, for an invitation to dinner on a lonely eve, for a request to “come along”; for all the wonderful surprises of […]
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[From Dww-work]… HAVE MERCY “Kyrie eleison! Christe eleison!” the Church has pleaded through the centuries; but if I mistake not I hear in the voice of her pleading a note of sadness and despair. Her plaintive cry, so often repeated in that tone of resigned dejection, compels one to infer that she is praying for […]
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Dallas Willard interview http://thejesusquestion.org/2016/01/07/dallas-willard-talks-gospel-grace-and-spiritual-discipline/ When asked by interviewer John Ortberg to define Jesus’s gospel, Willard responds, “It’s how to get into heaven before you die.” Many evangelists, unfortunately, teach a grave distortion of that: that the gospel is all about attaining heaven after death. In his preaching Jesus insisted again and again on the availability […]
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Anne Lamott – the day after Nov. 13, 2015 Terrorist Actions in Paris, France I wish there was a website we could turn to called, “What it means, What is True, and What to do.” Lots of very tense religious people are going to insist that their Scripture answers all these questions. That’s nice. Lots […]
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