Martin Luther and the reformers recovered the Bible's teaching concerning the priesthood of every believer.
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With apologies (and thanks) to N.T. Wright (speaking re: his book: ‘The Faithfulness of God’), I am pondering the following – some in his thoughts and words and some in mine:
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One of the early verses that I learned as a small child (at that time in the ubiquitous King James Version) was I Peter 5:8 (which of course comes immediately following verse 7 – ‘casting all your
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Interviewed by Relevant Magazine, author Malcolm Gladwell told of his return to the faith of his childhood.
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Raising the Spiritual Temperature
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'For God so loved the cosmos . . .' surely means that the whole creation, damaged as it is, will be restored and brought to new creation fulness.
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I don't know quite what this musical instrument is, a kind of bagpipe I presume.
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A window in the small chapel behind Iona Abbey, at Iona, Scotland, This 'texturized' photo was achieved with a simple iPad app effect.
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A great spot for a good read
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There is a delicate nature to flowers and yet they withstand wind and sun, even turning it into growth and beauty.
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St. Mary’s, Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk, England
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Taken in 2012 at St. Andrew’s, Wingfield, Suffolk, England
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Anyone can lose faith, in God or in anything or in anyone that appears to let us down, or not be there, or goes away. Faith is born out of the crucible of doubt, wrote Victor Hugo.
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Those of Jesus' followers who have gone “beyond evangelical” have moved on from the early 20th-century fundamentalism vs. modernism debate that our forefathers passionately fought . . .
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The church is at heart a people movement of those who are following Jesus.
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"All we can give back and all God wants from any of us," writes Richard Rohr in his book, Falling Upwards: A Spirituality for the Two Halfs of Life, "is to humbly and proudly return the pr
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“For too long we’ve read Scripture with 19th Century eyes and 16th Century questions. It’s time we get back to reading the Scripture with 1st Century eyes and with 21st Century questions.” N.T.
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The following information about the Barber Family of Fressingfield, Suffolk, England is gathered from The Bohun of Fressingfield Cartulary, Edited by Bridget Welss-Furry in the series Suff
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So, when raking my leaves it feels like I've been learning the meaning of the word ‘eternity.
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Life's autumn falls, dark memories too,
We long to hold the life we knew;
The love, the face we treasured, gone
And death now silences the home.
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It is a rebuke and opportunity for many of us, myself included, that Mother Theresa has said, "I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbour.
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Asking where You are, Lord, wondering where You’ve been, is like standing in a hurricane, trying to find the wind.
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Soon winter comes and deepening roots in blackened soil of centuries past
Go cold, though growing still and white-snow laden;
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God of the galaxies, great and beyond,
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Jesus is the Messiah and He is Lord.
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We have this treasure, writes St. Paul, in earthen vessels . . .
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We have this treasure, writes St. Paul, in earthen vessels . . .
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Soon winter comes and deepening roots in blackened soil of centuries past
Go cold, though growing still and white-snow laden;
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