Whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus Matthew 18 This child doesn’t know her limitations but her Soul knows she bares the unlimited power of God. She doesn’t know how heavy Jesus’ cross is but her Spirit knows it’s right to help Him carry it. Her mind […]
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Speaking to His Friends Jesus said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mark 8:34 If your faith is in a baptized book club,
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If we try to name it we don’t comprehend its dimension. It won’t be conjured by a chorus or controlled from a Pulpit, it’s in us wherever we are. It’s springing from our Souls. It’s in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the scenes we see, the songs we hear. Our words and silences gather our congregation daily. Our
Perhaps your family was like mine and did puzzles during the Christmas holiday season. We would get a thousand-piece puzzle, set up a card table, and dump the puzzle pieces out and let the fun begin. Conversations would start, and life would be shared as we searched for the image to emerge from the chaos
Today’s reflection is from C.S. Lewis’s book The Problem of Pain. It is a rather long passage abridged from his chapter Divine Goodness of some fifteen pages. Here we find the “Intolerable Compliment.” This compliment reveals that God cares more for our character than our comfort! God’s Master Piece I had a decade from hell
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