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A prayer for the church
Gracious Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite…
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Dealing with the sin of racism
This is a message from City Hope Church in Alabama. Trey Taylor is the pastor delivering this message. It’s worth the listen.
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Prayer for the day
As I have been out of town the past two Sundays, I look forward to a continued search. We are still seeking a place to call “home” in our new hometown. We haven’t been able to be “here” too many Sundays but we have enjoyed the churches we have visited. The Body of Christ truly is beautiful.
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Podcast reflection on the past six months of our lives
This is something I quickly recorded while I was on a long drive. Hopefully it might make sense and give folks an idea of what God is teaching me at this particular point in life.
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We plead for a poor and servant Church
My current devotional reading is in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s book Engagement with God. I can take a paragraph and let it simmer for a day. (Which chafes my flesh because I want to get through books quicker to achieve my reading goals.)
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The power of the Church in this world
“…the interior life of the Church is then one of selfless love so fully exercised that, within its communion, the structure of its ministries coincides exactly with that of interpersonal relationships and the whole is the visible manifestation of a community that so gives itself unselfishly in love and service that it cannot fail to touch the world outside, both…
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The depths of culturalized Christianity
John Fea calls them “court evangelicals.” I want to go a bit further and use the term: “culturalized Christians.” It’s not a good term, but I start there.
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Oh, the places we’ve been
In 9 days we pack up a moving truck and begin a new phase of our lives. In the last four months, we have been able to see God do incredible things to prepare the way for us. We’ve also had the incredible opportunity to visit all kinds of churches and see the Body of Christ in worship. While I…
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In the presence of spiritual giants
There is one couple who has been a constant in ministry my whole adult life in training for ministry and then ministry. As we have our “last suppers” with friends here in Minnesota, we said goodbye to my spiritual father.
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Violence is our DNA
Reflections the day after another school shooting.
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