Tag: scripture
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Journeying into Genesis – Week 4
Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.” ~Genesis 32:28 As promised in my last post on Genesis, even though by the time you are reading this it has been more than a month since we discussed Genesis…
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Are you listening? – Hearing God’s Voice
We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life ~ 1 John 1:1 I have never heard the voice of God. Well, at least not in the biblical sense.…
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The Stones Themselves Will Shout – Our Faith, Our Call, Our Neighbors
It’s funny, I normally write my blog posts more than a week in advance, but because of Bishop’s Convocation last week I am a bit behind, which meant that I would be writing my post for today, actually on the day. And in some ways I’m grateful for that. Because had I written this last…
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A Revelation New Year
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more,…
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Daniel, Lectionary, and Hope
In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream ~ Daniel 7:1 Each week, Bethany, like many churches, uses the Revised Common Lectionary in order to choose the readings for Sunday Worship. This calendar of…
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Wrestling with God
Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.” ~Genesis 32:28 Genesis 32:22-31 is one of my favorite stories from Scripture – mainly because I like Jacob, I find myself wrestling with God often. When I was younger, I…
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A New Thing
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. ~Isaiah 43:19 NIV Ministry isn’t exactly new to me, but as I move into my second week at Bethany, all I can think about is how…