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the God of Imagination
My friend and companion in weekly Bible study Rielly McLaren posted this on his blog recently. I liked it, so I thought I’d share it with you: ……….. The imagination is a pathway to knowing God, because it inspires wonder inside us. The imagination leads to wonder, wonder inevitably leads to knowingGod, and knowing God…
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High Standards and Hypocrisy: Avoiding the Trap of a Divided Life
But nothing covered up isWhich shall not be uncovered,Nor hiddenWhich shall not be known;Wherefore whatever in the darkness ye said,In the light shall be heard;And what in the ear ye spoke in chambers,Shall be proclaimed upon housetops. (Luke 12:2-3, The Englishman’s Greek New Testament) If in life you do anything differently than other people–if you…
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a different fairy tale
Jeff Fountain of YWAM, Europe, sends out weekly updates (creatively called “weekly words”). I really appreciated this week’s, so I thought I’d post it here. 04 Sep/06 A different fairy tale The lines, painted in white calligraphy on the black factory wall, silently summarised why we were gathering over the past two weeks as YWAM…
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incomparable hope
My grandfather, a gentle Mennonite man who leaves behind six children, twenty-seven grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren, passed away unexpectedly last Thursday. I wrote this reflection after his funeral yesterday. The day before Opa died found me in Luke 9:59-60. Jesus called a young man to follow him. “But he said, Lord, suffer me first to…
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God loves emotional wrecks
I’m feeling a little emotional today. (Ok, fine, I’m perched up in the top of an emotional tree and every time I look down I lose it a little.) My best friend, who has been with me all week, took a train home this afternoon, and I really dislike goodbyes. Being on the brink of…
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the storm
I read this last night in “Streams in the Desert” and loved it. It’s very applicable to things in my life right now. “I recollect, when a lad, and while attending a classical institute in the vicinity of Mount Pleasant, sitting on an elevation of that mountain, and watching a storm as it came up…
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Drunk on Worry (Sober and Free)
The apostle Peter, in his first letter to the saints, urged the people of God to “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” Many of us are well familiar with these verses, but we…
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Heather and Snow and One who Lives
From one of my favourite books, George MacDonald’s “Heather and Snow,” which is slated for publication by Little Dozen Press in the none-too-distant future. It is the story of Kirsty Barclay and her half-witted brother Steenie, whose chief joy is to wander the Highland mountains at night in search of “the bonny man” and His…
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The Drama
This has been a significant Easter. A season, a weekend, that has altered my perspective by reminding me that we are all living, not a mundane, meaningless existence, but in a drama that began before creation and reached its most critical point two thousand years ago. It is the story of Life and Death. Last…
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fallen flower
“For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away: But the word of the LORD endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” I Peter 1:24-25 A friend of mine…