To sit at table with family or friends, is sheer gift and something that doesn't always happen much any more, in some homes.
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When Dallas Willard was asked: 'How do you do “evangelism-discipleship?' he responded with the following: "My short answer? You ravish people with the blessings of the Kingdom.
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OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME.
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In "Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church," (HarperOne), Canon N.T. Wright claims that God is redeeming THIS creation.
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Anything worth doing, is worth doing passionately.
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A mallard couple in the Chesapeake
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Emily Dickinson wrote that 'Nature is a haunted house - but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.'
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After having lived in many places, Burlington Ontario, London Ontario, Toronto, Wenham MA, Gloucester MA, Uxbridge ON, Calgary Alberta, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, and Toronto again - I return at times
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I love the Seasons. I love the Snow - looking at it that is, before its beauty fades, the whiteness turns to black, the magic pristine crystals slush.
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Limitations of the Linear
I am quite a lateral thinker, though I can at times think, plan and act in a straight line, if that's called for.
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The Old Testament prophet Micah reminds us that there are three things God requires of us: ‘to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God." (Micah 6:8)
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Taken near Collingwood, Ontario, the colours of Autumn fade as leaves fall and soon give way to the basic white and black of Winter.
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Harvest scene in Prince Edward Island, not far from the Confederation Bridge.
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We are often drawn to the wrong things for all the wrong reasons, but sometimes for the right reasons too.
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This heavy pewter emblem with text was purchased during a visit to Iona, Scotland. I'm not sure how old the inscribed sentiments are (you could look it up).
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The Modern Age led people to organize, and analyze, in this case to chloroform butteryfly beauty and pin it on white-board (complete with frame) - and give it a Latin name.
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The Modern Age led people to organize and analyze, and in this case to chlorophorm beauty and to pin it on white-board (complete with frame) and give it a Latin name (on the reverse side).
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My son shared with me a book that I found difficult to put down. It’s called Shantaram and I’ve found in it all kinds of ‘wisdom.’ The author is Gregory David Roberts (published by St.
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One of the most beautiful cities in sub-Saharan Africa, Nairobi is a city of contrasts - of great wealth and great poverty, of things that are ugly and squalid with things that are gorgeously brill
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From a visit to Lebanon. The ancient city of Byblos is about an hour's drive north of Beirut. It is claimed as the world's oldest, continually-inhabited city.
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How to share faith when one is among clans and tribes - and not mere 'individuals?'
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How is this new clan and community - called the Church, to be part of God's answer, in Christ? Here's the response of St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesian Church:
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What was it Jesus really came to do, to accomplish as one thinks of the individual needs of families, individuals, communities and nations?
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Does negation of family, clan, tribe and community and pressing towards individual freedom, rights and wants lead to inevitable chaos?
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Holy Week reminds us of the death and resurrection of our Saviour.
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Loving ourselves at the expense of loving others is contrary to the heart of the Gospel.
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Quoting an unknown predecessor in Britain’s House of Commons, 11 November 1947, Winston Churchill said, "Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin an
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1. The Issue of Guilt –In the day you eat thereof, you shall surely die . . .
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The home of my ancestor - Rake House at Glasidale, North Riding of Yorkshire. Elizabeth Pennock was born 1780 and died after 1841.
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The effects of the Fall are reflected in the way people sin or show the ‘curse’ in their lives. This is reflected in at least three ways (cf. Genesis 3): You shall surely die.
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