Spirituality
Our Watchword Is Security
(William Pitt) Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you… So Abram left, as the Lord had told him. [The Lord] protected them and cared for them, as he would protect himself. Like an eagle teaching its young to fly, catching them safely on its […]
Terrorism: Prayer/Response
Deborah A. Nisly Grace Mennonite Church Pandora, Oh [On the first two lines, we plan to encourage members to read the line or lines which express what they are feeling.] Leader & Congregants: Today we feel sorrow. Leader & Congregants: Today we feel anger. All: Today we feel loss. Leader: The Lord has witnessed the […]
Day Of National Prayer And Remembrance
Day of National Prayer and Remembrance Goshen Health System – Chapel 12 noon, September 14, 2001 “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from God comes my salvation. God alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall never be shaken.” Welcome to this time together. Today we join with our sisters […]
Julian
For ryte as be the curtesye of God he forgiveth our synne atte the tyme that we repenten us, ryte so will He that we forgiven our synne as anempts our unskilfull hevyness and our doutfull dreds.” Julian, LXXIII (for just as through His courtesy God forgives our sin when we repent; so He wills […]
Julian [2]
“And therefore in what manner He techith us, He will we persivyn Him wisely, receivyn Him swetely, and kepin us in Hym feithfully.” Julian, LXX (Whatever way He teaches us, His will is that we should be wise enough to perceive Him, gentle enough to receive Him, and faithful enough to keep ourselves in Him.) […]
Holy, Holy, Holy
In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord Yahweh seated on a high throne; his train filled the sanctuary; above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings: two to cover its face, two to cover its feet and two for flying. And they cried out to one another in this way, […]
Choose Life
For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ Neither is it beyond the […]
Accepting Diversity
Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse… the Law has nothing to do with faith (Paul). If [faith] is alone and includes no actions, it is dead (James). We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions. In the same way, though we […]
Reverent Dread
“That drede that makith us hastily to fleen from all that is not good, and fallen into our Lords brest as the child into the moder barme, with all our entent and with all our mynd, knowand our febilness and our gret nede, knowing His everlesting goodnes and His blisfull love . it is kinde, […]
The Food Of God
And God spoke all these words: ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in […]
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