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When Never Again Becomes Again and Again

lifeinthelabyrinthFebruary 21, 2021February 19, 2021Leave a comment

So far, this doesn’t seem much of a child’s story. I’m sure Noah was overjoyed to step foot on dry land, but that step led to an ocean’s worth of “what now?”

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done

lifeinthelabyrinthJuly 13, 2018July 16, 20184 Comments

Discipleship is not a point in time but a journey. We are continually being saved and sanctified for God’s use. We are never done.

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Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines adapt as “to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification.” Often by modification. How else could you adapt something? I guess, you could force a square peg into a round hole to make it...

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stuck

lifeinthelabyrinthApril 27, 20187 Comments

Stuck is not something we usually want to be. It suggests a loss of control and autonomy. It hints there is a better option that we can’t seem to get to. But stuck can also be a state of permanence...

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This Great Commission

lifeinthelabyrinthMay 1, 2017April 30, 2017Leave a comment

Youngest's baptism, c. 2002 Today Youngest was confirmed, making a public profession of faith as he reaffirmed the baptismal covenant. This is my charge to the confirmands. Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told...

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One Baptism

lifeinthelabyrinthSeptember 19, 2015September 18, 2015Leave a comment

This is the amazing baptismal font at Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, - Ephesians 4:5 (CEB) This Sunday I will preside over my first baptism. This won’t take place in a Withness...

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Dying to Self

lifeinthelabyrinthJuly 29, 2014July 28, 2014Leave a comment

So then, if anyone is in Christ, that person is part of the new creation. The old things have gone away, and look, new things have arrived! – 2 Corinthians 5:17 (CEB) Sunday I led worship with an interesting worshipping...

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