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The Gift of Beauty

Posted in Glory, Wonder, tagged , , , , on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Fall has come to the Midwest. I mean Fall. The things we fondly think of when we dream of the hot, dry days of summer transitioning over to the cool, colorful, lively shorter days of autumn: holiday plans, folks carving pumpkins and making hot apple cider, talk of what the winter might hold [...]

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How Near is the Kingdom?

Posted in Discipleship, Glory, Home, Longing, Repentance, Wonder on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

How much is God on our side?  How much can we trust Him, I mean, to be our comforter and provider?  I often think of it as our being on His side, not He on ours (He is, after all, God!), but when it comes to mercy, we need Him to come to us.  But [...]

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Revealed

Posted in Confession, Glory, Home, Longing, tagged , , on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Underrepresented. I had sat for some time to find the right word. Everyone else had answered, and so I offered mine last. Looks of confusion and “Hum”s went around the room. I felt it was right, though, and so I stuck with it. We could say nothing more about it. One word, and only one [...]

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Pain

Posted in Glory, Journey, Longing, Salvation, tagged , , , on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

“I would rather be broken in Your hands than whole in barren lands.” I penned these words some time ago, when brokenness seemed to me to be a place more of refuge than of desertion. Now that I think about it, brokenness wasn’t a defining thing for me then; rather, it was that [...]

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Reflecting or Deflecting?

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Glory, Identity on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »

“You are not one of his disciples, are you?” the girl at the door asked Peter. He replied, “I am not.” “Didn’t I see you with him…?” Again Peter denied it… (from John 18:17, 26-27)
When Peter denied Jesus, he was not only betraying his friend and Lord, he was betraying his own identity. For the [...]

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Too Close for Comfort

Posted in Battle, Glory, Home, Invitation, Jesus, New Covenant, Postmodernism, Salvation, Scripture, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »

O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
-Psalm 8:1, 3-4
Can you imagine [...]

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The Treasure in our Midst

Posted in Glory, Identity, Jesus, Love, tagged , , , on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Some rough thoughts on treasure…
We have this treasure in jars of clay… that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.
2 Corinthians 4:7, 11
Treasure. Prize. Fortune. Riches.
The treasure that Paul is speaking of here, in part, is God’s life in us, the kingdom of heaven, the same kingdom that we are [...]

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