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Book Review ~ Sight in the Sandstorm
Post Views = 2757 Ann J. Temkin’s book, Sight in the Sandstorm, Jesus in His World and Mine, is part personal memoir and part biblical storytelling. Ann creatively weaves bits of her background growing up as a half-Jewish child into a Catholic nun and a Protestant minister with the story of Jesus and his message…
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What if?
Post Views = 4017 What if… …God is the beginning of all things? …God is here, already, right now? …God’s home is here, among us? …God Spirit is living in each one of us? …the church isn’t God in a building, but God in people? …all light is God’s light? …all truth is God’s truth?…
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When I Grow Old
Post Views = 4257 When I grow old Whenever that I may be For the numbers keep increasing Yet perception keeps amending But when I grow old I want to be Like the man I saw on my morning walk Leaning on his cane as he trimmed the hedge Like the couple I…
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God: To Perform or To Participate
Post Views = 3106Does God want performance or participation? This question has been real to me both in my thoughts and in my living. Are my days to be lived striving to perform for and please the Almighty God? Or is God reaching out toward me asking me to join in, participate in, and be…
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Music: To Perform or To Participate
Post Views = 3482 It’s a question I’ve grappled with many times, especially as a music teacher. What is the goal of learning music? To perform or to participate? Outside expectations push me into emphasizing the performance. The school wants an impressive end-of-year program. Parents want a successful spring recital. The church wants a Christmas…
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Jonah and the Whale, Part 2
Post Views = 2720 (continued) So, what happened after Jonah brought this prophecy to the people? Much to Jonah’s chagrin, the Ninevites listened. They repented. They actually believed Jonah. “Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind ….When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to…