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pounding pavement: November 16
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Sunday, November 16, 2014. The parable of the talents. It's so inocuous. It sounds pretty straightforward, right up until the words of the third slave: “Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sew, and gathering where you did not scatter seed.”. Be like this Master. Large risks. Huge ...
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pounding pavement: August 2012
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Sunday, August 5, 2012. Pentecost 10 - Grace. What do you do with David? It’s almost as if, in our idealized history that we draw from the Bible, David becomes a perfect and flawless individual – the great King who ruled over. As I got older, though, I realized that so many of those heroes…weren’t. Are the man who h...
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pounding pavement: Lent 4 - The Prodigal Son
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Sunday, March 10, 2013. Lent 4 - The Prodigal Son. And God only helps those who help themselves, God never gives you more than you can handle -. But they’re not. But a fable isn’t a parable. It has to do with the power of the parable. Why does Jesus tell the story? How many characters are there? Now, take a step bac...
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pounding pavement: Humanity, and Human-ness (Lent 1)
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Saturday, March 8, 2014. Humanity, and Human-ness (Lent 1). What does it mean to you, that you are human? It means a few things, at least. You’re male, or female. You’re Aboriginal, Caucasian, European, African, or Asian. It means that you were created. But what’s after that? They turn inwards, caring more about who.
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pounding pavement: March 2013
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Sunday, March 10, 2013. Lent 4 - The Prodigal Son. And God only helps those who help themselves, God never gives you more than you can handle -. But they’re not. But a fable isn’t a parable. It has to do with the power of the parable. Why does Jesus tell the story? How many characters are there? Now, take a step bac...
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pounding pavement: Christmas Day
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Tuesday, December 25, 2012. Newspaper headlines scream about the economic catastrophe. Four days – four days! Would this even have made headlines 60 years ago? A generation ago, winter came and went with nary a peep. I’ve read newspaper articles from 1929 and 1930 that do more to foster hope in these circu...And tha...
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pounding pavement: April 2012
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Tuesday, April 3, 2012. That’s actually how we tend to deal with unpleasant news, right? 8211; we ignore it, pretend it didn’t happen. When we finally can’t ignore it any more, we respond with the ever-plaintive “why me? They’re not unusual; lots of companies offer personalized service. They greet you with...Curious...
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pounding pavement: March 2 - Transfiguration Sunday
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Saturday, March 1, 2014. March 2 - Transfiguration Sunday. 8220;It is good, Lord, for us to be here,” Peter says to Jesus. Whether Jesus tells Peter simply not to be afraid of him, or of the Heavenly Father, or of what the people had just seen – he’s also telling Peter not to be afraid of what’s ah...Beloved, your w...
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pounding pavement: Christmas Eve - Never Wake a Sleeping Baby
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Tuesday, December 25, 2012. Christmas Eve - Never Wake a Sleeping Baby. Most people who gather here tonight will be somewhat familiar with the Macintyre household. Two adults, four kids, and three bedrooms makes for a very loud, very busy household. Yet we manage with a minimum of fuss and bloodshed. A temper tantru...
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pounding pavement: July 2012
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Wanderings of a pastoral heart. Adventures are many; updates are few. I love to run; that desire for movement has moved me clear across the country and into new possibilities and experiences. Friday, July 6, 2012. This past week took us to Little Bow Provincial Park, at a reservoir down in the coulees of southern. It was as I cleaned those thirty chubby digits with my towel that I peered up into three sets of eyes - all different, yet all mine; flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bone. They looked at m...
