A brief interlude in winter as spring reminds us it's coming. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my plans than your plans. – Isaiah 55:9 (CEB) Last year...
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(RE)Discovering the Tithe: It’s Personal
“So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD, have given me.” You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. Then you, together...
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(RE)Discovering the Tithe: Who Gets It?
Set apart a tithe of all the yield of your seed that is brought in yearly from the field…. – Deuteronomy 14:22 (NRSV) This is the third in a series of reflections on the tithe. I have been studying what...
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(RE)Discovering the Tithe: Come
All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or the fruit from the tree, are the LORD’S; they are holy to the LORD. If persons wish to redeem any of their tithes, they must add one-fifth to...
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Overwhelmed
In the same way, though there are many of us, we are one body in Christ, and individually we belong to each other. – Romans 12:5 (CEB) As I mentioned in Holy Sorrow, I worshipped this morning at Tippecanoe Presbyterian...
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Advent Reflections: Finding the Light…
This is the fourth in a series of reflections on John 1. The light came to his own people, and his own people didn’t welcome him. John 1:11 (CEB) Yesterday, we were thinking about the magi and following the...
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Nothing But Joy
I mentioned to a friend that I was trying to be grateful for the injury, and she told me to let her know if I figure it out. So what does gratitude for what I cannot do look like?
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Seven: Possessions
“The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light...
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Confirming
No, they are not “being confirmed” but they are confirming the relationship that God initiated even before they were born.
