July 2011
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Togetherness Liturgy
I wrote this small piece of Liturgy for today’s gathering of our church community:
Togetherness Liturgy:
Scripture:
“One of the things I always pray for…is the opportunity, God willing..to come at last to see you. For I long to visit you… so I can bring you some spiritual gift…that will help you grow strong in the Lord. When we get together…I want to...
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Good Things #234
Enjoying time and frozen yogurt with my daughter Destiny…at Blu Berry Frozen Yogurt on 57th on a hot summer evening. Hard to imagine this upcoming year will be her last one in Highschool, seems like I was just holding her in my arms as a little baby girl.
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15 Hiking Trails around Spokane →
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“At its most basic level, the everyday practice of being with other people is the...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World (via invisibleforeigner)
‘I thought of my walk route that I take for exercising, when I read this quote. Yesterday was a beautiful evening, so I got my daily sweat hour in a little later in the day. As I made my way into the upper, more rich part of...
“We want guidance and leadership from people who can say, “I know what God does...”
– Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation (via miketodd07)
“‘Transforming’ is the key word to me…not just enduring, even though I think endurance is a biblical step in transformation. I think there are plenty of spriituality/religious concepts related to endurance,...
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Anybody ever taken a ride on one of these? →
With my knee issues, I think this would be an awesome version of running/biking for me. I am going to rent one and try it out.
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One of the big reasons I had to get fit... →
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Great Men...but...Bad Dads...?
I was thinking that for Father’s Day I’d speak about good fathers from one of the men of the Bible, but after looking over the biblical fathers…I realized, there just isn’t very many to choose from…if any. I found father stories full of wrath, anger, adultery, drunkenness, rebellion, failure, pride, bloodshed, burning of daughters at the stake, incest, polygamy,...
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WatchWow…simply awesome, if you are a StarWars geek.
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Steps & Stages...in personal development
“The second insight about steps and stages is that from your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit beyond yourself. Some theorists say you cannot stretch more than one step above your own level of consciousness, and that is on a good day! Because of this limitation, those at deeper (or “higher”) levels beyond you invariably appear wrong,...
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“A disciple maker is more of a drill sergeant than a class room teacher. His goal...”
– The Map by David Murrow
A personal relationship with Jesus...?
” A personal relationship with Jesus”…that phrase never appears in the Bible. Yet in the past 50 years it’s become the number one way the evangelical church describes the Christian walk. It’s turned the gospel into a puzzle for men, because most guys don’t think in terms of relationships. Let’s say Lenny approaches Nick and says, “Nick, would you like to have a personal...
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“The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens (via invisibleforeigner)
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Anonymous asked: When the reformers through out the Catholic bathwater, what "babies" do you think also got thrown out accidentally?
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“Last night . .
I dreamt . .
the golden bees
were making
white combs
and...”
– Antonio Machado
“I speak the truth, not as much as I would but as much as I dare…and I dare...”
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a...”
– Chorus from ‘Anthem’ by Leonard Cohen
Jesus never once asked to be worshiped, but only followed. -Richard Rohr, Adam’s Return.
Interesting how we often flip that around in Christian circles. I believe Jesus is Divine, but I often see people proclaim “who” He is; while they deny His “way”.
“Unless the eye catch fire, God will not be seen.
Unless the ear catch fire, God...”
– William Blake, “Pentecost” (for Pentecost Sunday)
“He brought light out of darkness, not out of a lesser light, He can bring thy summer out of winter, though thou have no spring; though in the ways of fortune or understanding or conscience, thou have been benighted till now, wintered and frozen, clouded and eclipsed, damped and benumbed, smothered and stupefied till now, now God comes to thee, not as the dawning of the day, not as the bud of the...
