Thursday, April 10, 2014

Prayers for Lent, Day 32: Give Up, Take On, Pray

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            Back when I first started talking about ministry, it was seen as something the ordained did. Lay people had no ministry at a...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Prayers for Lent, Day 31: Give Up, Take On, Pray

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         [There are those activities that] we use...for a kind of pleasure which can be called "fun." But it is not the creativ...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Prayers of the People: Read my Palm; Palm Sunday

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for Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014 ~ Readings:   The Liturgy of the Palms: Mt 21:1-11; The Liturgy of the Word: Isaiah 50:4-9a, Ps 31:9-16, Ph...

Prayers for Lent, Day 30: Give Up, Take On, Pray

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        [A] personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, f...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Prayers for Lent, Day 29: Give Up, Take On, Pray

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            Imagine a trust in yourself, or another person, or in life itself, that doesn’t need to be proved or demonstrated, that is able...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Prayers for Lent, Day 28: Give Up, Take On, Pray

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Our images of God matter.   Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Prayers for Lent, Day 27: Give Up, Take On, Pray

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“The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, where...