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The hard realizations of our evangelical structures
This whole Twitter chain is worth the read. But a snippet:
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Lent: trust the long walk
Lent isn’t a cure all. Growing up as a Pentecostal, the prayer time around the altar was treated as a cure all. Youth camp was treated as a cure all. One time events were treated as cure alls. You pray, God visits you, the Holy Spirit does his work… you move on.
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Lent: We must see our sickness
“The first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem.” — Alcoholics Anonymous “Unless we see our symptoms and sickness, we do not seek a cure. The Lenten disciplines do not take too long to reveal something to us, and when they do we are supposed to rest in the knowledge of God’s love and grace.” — Lent: The…
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The heaviness of this past week SHOULD lead us into Lent
What a week. The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. (Just sit on that thought for a few seconds.)
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Kingdom resources in the time of coronovirus
My regular daily office reading has me in the Gospel of Matthew currently and today was Matthew 25. It is still hard for me to read this passage and not have my upbringing in Bible reading flood my thoughts. In the past I was sure Matthew 24 and 25 were about the “end times” as in: “Are you rapture ready?”…
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First Sunday of Lent
Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations, and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find you mighty to save; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, on…
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Lenten Reading — Rejoice in his great mercy
My Lenten Scripture reading is HERE. Today leads me to Psalm 103. I am reminded to rejoice in his mercy!
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Lord, draw us toward you
“Draw us, Lord, toward you, toward your way of self-giving love. Draw us away from all that is not love — from the forces of greed, fear, anxiety, and brutality. In this Lenten experience of so being drawn toward you and away from the powers of the world, may we come to find that new life that is the meaning…
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Living the memory of Christ in the present tense
“The church at Corinth is not called to pious, romantic, goosey religion but simply to practice the memory of Jesus and to let that memory be fully present tense… Christians sort these matters out around Jesus, because we are endlessly seduced by imagining the glory is to be found in our technology, in our brightness, in our achievement, in our…
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Longing for Passion Week
Last Sunday in worship I realized how long Lent really was, even though I’ve worked to walk through Lent the last several years. The liturgy on Sunday in the Anglican Church amplifies that longing. We don’t sing as many songs. The songs are more “mournful” in a way. Lent gets long and I’m thinking, “Wow! Could we hurry this up?”
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