Devotion
You Have Never Been Hurt (Richard Rohr)
Richard Rohr You Have Never Been Hurt April 2, 1999 [used with permission]. [Fr. RICHARD ROHR is a priest, a retreat master and a writer. A native of Kansas, Richard entered the Franciscan order in 1961 and became a priest in 1970. He was founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the […]
Life
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-233 (Theology) Living Words of the New Testament, by Rev Dr Leon Morris LIFE There are two Greek words for life. One is zoe; which means the physical, animal life that we share with the lower creation. It gives us the English word ‘zoology’. The other word is bios, which a standard […]
Celebration
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-226 CELEBRATION From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Sing to the Lord a new song… Let Israel be glad… Praise his name with dancing. Psalm 149:1-3. The Psalms are a recital of God’s goodness and his people’s ecstatic responses. […]
Praise And Awe
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-236 PRAISE AND AWE From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. [Jacob] was afraid, and said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, the gate of heaven.’ Genesis 28:17. A little jester was […]
Don’t Be A Slave…
A little wisdom first:………………… “The enemy surrounds us. Don’t let one escape.” — Vance Havner “One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.” — John Stuart Mill “By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they […]
When God Restores What The Locusts Eat
I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten-the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm-My great army that I sent among you. – (Joel 2:25) There are seasons in our lives that involve times of famine and times of restoration. Solomon tells us that He has […]
Work
T O D A Y G O D I S F I R S T Marketplace Meditations by Os Hillman The Gospel of the Kingdom This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” – […]
The Getting Of Wisdom
“Your priorities determine your progress.” – Mike Tully “He who won’t be counseled can’t be helped.” – Benjamin Franklin “Helping others is what helps ourselves.” – Natalie Locke “We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.” — Michael McClure, cited in Bits & Pieces Practically all of us thrive on some form of acknowledg- […]
Lessons From An Olympic Runner
“Lessons From An Olympic Runner” Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church 9601 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19114 (215) 637-5225 Written 17 September 2000 As we watch the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, remember John Akhwari. He represented Tanzania and ran the Marathon in the 1968 Games in […]
Hardness
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-187 (Theology) Living Words of the New Testament, by Rev Dr Leon Morris HARDNESS The New Testament speaks of different kinds of hardness (and these days translations often use words other than ‘hard’ to tell us about them). Thus it is made clear that some things in the Bible are hard to […]
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