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How I Treat You
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. —C.S. Lewis PRAYER: (from the Lectionary) “O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace … Continue reading
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Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace
“Dear God, I’m doing the best I can.” —Frank (a 7 year-old, in Children’s Letters to God) PRAYER: (from the Lectionary) “Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being … Continue reading
Witness Where You Are
“What we need is a desire to know the whole will of God, with a fixed resolution to do it.” —John Wesley PRAYER: (from the Lectionary) “O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for … Continue reading
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Welcome, Sinners
“Love becomes weak if it is not strengthened by truth. Truth becomes hard if it is not softened by love.” –Nicky Gumbel, Anglican Priest and developer of the Alpha Course. PRAYER: (From the Lectionary) “Keep, O Lord, your household the … Continue reading
Fire from Heaven
“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe, 19th Century American writer and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. PRAYER: (from the Lectionary) … Continue reading
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Finishing the Race
“Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” —the fictional “Mrs. Fletcher” in a 1990s advertisement for a remote home medical alarm system. “In the dust of defeat, as well as the laurels of victory, there is glory to be … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Power: Pride or Love?
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. ― C.S. Lewis It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. —St. Augustine … Continue reading
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Unlimited Once More
See, the Conqueror mounts in triumph, See the King in royal state, Riding on the clouds His chariot To His heavenly palace-gate; Hark, the choirs of angel voices Joyful halleluiahs sing, And the portals high are lifted, To receive their … Continue reading
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When We Stumble, When We Fall
We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. —Thomas Merton PRAYER: (from the Lectionary) “Almighty God, whom truly to know … Continue reading
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From Boston to Baghdad
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul. PRAYER: (by Rev. Frederick William Schmidt, Professor of … Continue reading
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