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45
Today is the day I turn another year. It is the day I face squarely and say, “I’m ready.” Or, it’s the day I fall to the floor and curl up in a little ball and start sucking my thumb. On the backside to 50 now. It’s actually a great place to be in life. One son is married and…
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Biblioblogs
I honestly have no idea what qualifies some blog to be a “biblioblog”. However, I honestly don’t think this list can be called “complete.”
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watch night
From my new prayer book, Common Prayer, I learn this from today’s reading: The “watch night” (when in my church tradition the church “prays in” in the New Year) actually began in the African American communities on December 31, 1862. They gathered to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation which would become law on January 1, 1863. Booker T. Washington wrote, As…
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good reads from 2010
Acedia and Me by Kathleen Norris Under the Predictable Plant by Eugene Peterson Exploring Ecclesiology by Harper and Metzger In Constant Prayer by Robert Benson The Next Christians by Gabe Lyons Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith Liturgical Theology by Simon Chan
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common prayer
In my journey I have NOT drifted from being one thing to being another spiritually. There might be some who claim they went from being Pentecostal to liturgical. (Like they gave up being Pentecostal.) That is not my story. I am still Pentecostal. I still believe in the life of the Spirit. I still believe the gifts of the Spirit…
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christmas thoughts
From my reading this morning, Gregory of Nazianzus: God became human and poor for our sake, to raise up our flesh, to recover our divine image, to recreate humanity. We no longer observe distinctions arriving from the flesh, but are to bear within ourselves only the seal of God, by whom and for whom we were created. We are to…
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two amazing gifts
Two very special gifts I received, along with just an incredible day with our family.
