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Don’t stay empty
The journey of Lent is one that should be inward. As western Christians, we don’t “do inward” very well. We don’t like silence a lot, either. Protestant emphasis, beginning so nobly in the early Luther, has grown externally rationalistic, humanistic, and service-minded… The dearth of rich Protestant literature on the interior aspect of Christian living, except as it bears on…
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The desire to desire
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
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The longing for all things new
Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. (Hab. 3:2) There is a longing in my heart, not for a repeat of some past revival, but a renewed hunger for the presence of God. I can’t start anywhere…
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Beginning the journey of Lent
Seek the Lord and live, or else God might rush like a fire against the house of Joseph. The fire will burn up Bethel, with no one to put it out. (Amos 5:6) We begin with Ash Wednesday. It is a time to seek the Lord. Amos was written to a nation in prosperity, but spiritually they were in a…
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Why bother?
Why are you calling yourself a Christian?
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Laid in the tomb
The darkness of Saturday. Longing for hope.
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Prayer for Maundy Thursday
Merciful God, on this, the night he was betrayed, your Son Jesus Christ washed his disciples’ feet. As we commit ourselves to following his example of love and service, teach us humility. God of grace, hear our prayer. On this night, Jesus prayed for his disciples to be one. As we grieve for the divisions in the church, unite us.…
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Holy Thursday
All authority was handed over to Jesus. To demonstrate all that power… Jesus served. Lord, help me pick up this “mantle” in my own life. Not just today. Every day. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the…
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Running the way of our King
Two texts from our reading today remind me of the endurance needed in Christian life. Mark 8:31-9:1 reminds me what kind of race I need to run. I am to run HIS race. It may the race of suffering and hardship, but that is the way of the King. We always have a “better” way for Jesus to direct us. Peter did.…
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