Spiritual hunger
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I have some deep questions driving me right now. I want Christ formed in me. Not just in me… because I believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ and he didn’t do all this for me alone. He is about the business of redeeming and reclaiming the world. This I believe. Read more
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This trip back through Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton has been slower. I’ve picked it up to read just a few pages, then put it down for awhile as I pondered something or I went back to reading other material. This past week I was walking through a difficult spiritual battle and picked up… Read more
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Politics is heating up. Rhetoric is heating up. My mind is spinning from the lies spewing out about … shocker … immigrants. People seeking refuge from chaos, corruption, and real danger have come to the United States to find … chaos, corruption, and real danger. What are we doing? Read more
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In a crazy time, I have needed to work harder on what input I allow into my life. It also allows me to reflect on places in Scripture I deeply and are life-giving to me nearly every time I walk through the. Over the past few decades of my life, if there I could pick… Read more
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We move from Pentecost Sunday to Trinity Sunday. The Old Testament text for Trinity Sunday dovetails so nicely from Pentecost Sunday. It is Exodus 3:1-6. Moses is being called to go back and lead the Hebrew people out of Egypt. Moses is not “young.” He had more of life behind him than in front of… Read more
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We are in this liminal space from the last Sunday in Epiphany to Ash Wednesday. It is a space of transition. A shift is happening. Read more
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In this season I have had sense of the Lord unfolding his glory to me, and his longing to keep unfolding his glory to his people. I noticed on a calendar that today is the Feast of Thomas Aquinas. I was reading a short biography of him here and this story jumped out to me: Read more
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We are in the season of Epiphany. It is about the revealing of God’s glory. It is the Lord manifesting his glory among his people and among the nations. This is a season I am praying for a fresh unfolding of God’s glory in this dark world. Read more
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23 Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. 24 News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if… Read more
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