You do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. – 2 Peter 1:19 Beloved of God, Daylight is growing more precious these days, as the time of the sun’s setting slips before 6pm and the […]
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And the Lord said…will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to him. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? ~ Luke 18:6-8 Beloved of […]
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God’s word is our great heritage and shall be ours forever, To spread its light from to age shall be our chief endeavor. Through life it guides our way; in death it is our stay. Lord, grant while time shall last your church may hold it fast, throughout all generations. ~ Nikolai Grundtvig, 1783-1872 Beloved, […]
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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the […]
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The eyes of all wait upon thee; and though givest them their food in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. Alleluia! Alleluia! ~ Psalm 145:15-16 (KJV) Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me bless God’s holy name. Bless the Lord, O my […]
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One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim […]
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As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on. But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went to stay with them. When he was at the table with […]
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The Word of God is source and seed; it comes to die and sprout and grow. So make your dark earth welcome-warm; root deep the grain God bent to sow. ~ Delores Dufner, ELW #506, verse 1 Beloved of God, The month of March finds us smack dab in the middle of the Lenten journey, […]
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“Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white….a cloud came and overshadowed them; and thy were terrified as they entered the cloud. Then from the cloud came a voice […]
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The Pastor’s Pen Jesus unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the bind, to let the oppressed […]
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