A Morning Call to Worship for a Thanksgiving Morning Do your soul a favor and start your day reading six verses to companion your morning with thoughts of Christ. Open to Psalm 90 and read verses one and two, then flip over to Ephesians 1:11-14. Remember how much you are loved by the greatest lover … More A Thanksgiving Call to Worship
Tuesday is for Reflection Rereading Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, an entire book exploring the “intentional embrace of a lifestyle of radical gratitude,” (from the backcover). This is a discipline that is not easy, but it is a discipline that transforms life, all of life and Ann … More “You’ve Changed” : : The Difference Gratitude Makes
Wednesday is for Prayer All around the country, pastors and church leaders are thinking through and preparing their Christmas season of messages as others are preparing for Thanksgiving. My message this week is on the birth announcement of the angel Gabriel to Zachariah that he and Elizabeth’s late-born, miracle child was going to figure prominently … More When Doubt is Sin: A Thanksgiving Eve Meditation
Friday is for Heart Songs The air is crisp. The sun is bright. The dew is thick. Finally, Fall has arrived. Corn is being harvested. Soybean too. Trees are adding color to the horizon and the annual de-elevation of the landscape is in full swing. I have only lived in rural America for a year and … More Giving Thanks for a Crisp Fall Day
Thursday Musings I am reading Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus by Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg. This morning I ran across this simple but provocative thought: “What if we could find a way to fine-tune our hearing, so that we could develop first-century Jewish ears? … Is it possible to retune our hearing … More Thanksgiving is for Joy
Weekend Links This week’s links with a lot of separate categories. As always, these are to provoke thought, expand perspective and challenge assumptions, not an endorsement of every particular. Thinking Better About Government and the Economy The Sensible Vision of Paul Ryan on the Budget (Larry Kudlow) If this is coming to USA, how do … More Ann Voskamp, J.P. Moreland, Obamacare, The Strait of Hormuz, Jimmy Stewart, The Sinless Christ, Christology
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