Wed Mar 19-When Was the Last Time You Did Something New?
This question really had me go in a lot of different directions. My first thought was, “Well, I tried a new pizza place on my way home the other day.”
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Mon Mar 10-Who Inspires Your Faith?
I will admit, I have always wanted to be an inspiration to someone. I thought that was a lofty goal – to live my life in a way that it may inspire others. However, when my daughter was writing her college application essay.
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Thu Feb 26-Ice Cream Over the Dentist (Every Time!)
I’m pretty sure you have seen the phrase “no Jesus, no peace, know Jesus, know peace.” I was struggling with what I wanted to write because I have to admit, I have been struggling recently to feel peace.
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Fri Feb 14-Who Do People Say I Am?
If you took a survey of people on the street today, you may get similar responses to what the disciples told Jesus that others were saying about him centuries ago. Some would say he was a prophet, others a moral teacher, others a mythical person, and others would say that he was and is the Son of God.
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Mon Feb 3-Do We Pray Before or After the Fact?
One of the things I thought about when I read the passage was – how often do we do something or decide something and then afterward think “oh I really should have prayed about this before I said yes or no or before I made a decision?”
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Tue Jan 21-Selfish Ambition
I love the book of James. James is very straightforward about how we are to live our lives. It doesn’t make it easier, but it does give us good instruction. Our passage today had me struggling to give good examples because I am feeling like this is a no brainer. The state of our world feels like this is where we are. Those in power seem to be in power only for power.
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Wed Jan 8-Eternity
Verse 7 of this chapter refers to our bodies as “clay pots” and the subsequent verses leading up to verse 18 speak about the things that happen to that body – we are harassed, we are knocked down. They speak to the fact that we carry Jesus’ death in our bodies so that his life may be seen through us – we are resilient, we are renewed every day by the Spirit, and we will have an eternal stockpile of glory one day.
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Fri Dec 20-May We Be Like the Shepherds
I was thinking that Shepherds’ Field or the town in the West Bank known as Beit Sahour was not at all far away from Bethlehem. Google Maps says it is about a mile, but it takes quite a while to walk between the two places, maybe 50 minutes. Now, I can’t remember if there is a checkpoint between the two places, but that very well may be. I do know that the terrain is rough – it is hilly and desert like.
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Wed Dec 18-Be Present In The World
God will work with us to see what we need to see if we are present in the world.
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Tue Nov 26-Remember to Say Thank You
We want to teach our children to say thank you for things they receive and for kindnesses. That is a basic rule that most of us follow – saying please and thank you – and we teach children at a very early age to do just that.
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Nov 14-I Will Keep Watch for the Lord
When I first looked at my scripture, I thought I would be writing a much different devotion – one in which I was thrilled that God listens to our needs and sees those that are oppressed and how we as fellow humans are trying to help make this a better world for everyone.
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Fri Nov 1-Give Us Wisdom!
As we approach the election, especially being from the “swingiest of swing states” (PA), we have been constantly inundated with commercials – many of which have the same messaging from both sides – that we will be much better off in all ways with the candidate the ad is touting.
