Category: Bible
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Beings of Light: A Poem
I’m going to cheat a bit. Today is national poetry day, so I am sharing a poem I recently wrote for my WIP. The poem is based on John 12:25-36. Beings of Light Darkness is real. That much everyone agrees is true.People cn’t seeBlind to realityYoung and old stumble and fallInto the void we callBloodied…
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Ash Wednesday – 2023
Today is the first day of Lent. A primary activity of the Lenten season (not the only, but primary) is fasting. Christ-followers should fast. Jesus clearly expects it of us for he tells us, But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but…
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Advent 2022: Christmas Eve, Galatians 3:23-4:7
It seems convoluted at the outset, but it is a beautiful aspect of the BCP that the assigned readings finish with the stretch from 3:23 and ends with 4:7. Magnificent! Today is Christmas Eve, you should go to church tonight. Sing the songs. Hear the lessons. Pray your prayers. Light the candles. Eat the bread…
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Advent 2022: Week Four, Friday, Galatians 3:15-22
Today is Christmas Adam — because it comes before Christmas Eve. Our reading focuses another character from the book of Genesis, though. 15. Brothers and sisters, let me speak to it in an everyday human way; it’s all very similar to a will that’s already probated, and no one can annul any of it or…