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Musings about life, faith, and what God might be up to all around us. Saturday, February 7, 2015. Perhaps you've noticed: it's winter! Every year after a few months of winter I get a serious case of cabin fever. I mean, I go out, sure. . . I go to work, swim team practice, last night I even went to see a play in Cleveland with my family. (Hence the picture below! I am usually (usually! Violence to rodents or any other of God's creatures is strictly frowned up, by the way! Such a pitiful case I am). In Ge...
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He must increase… | Castle Church Door
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A place for dialogue and conversation around all things church. . . He must increase…. Tags: call to ministry. The Baptist’s words, however, are more than just a convenient way for us to organize the liturgical calendar. They are also a call for those who would be the friends of Jesus in this day and age to humility and true discipleshipan opportunity for honesty about who we are and what we are called to do as God’s people in the world. From → Uncategorized. Larr; Life Comes At You Fast. Twas the week b...
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Marching Around the Walls | Castle Church Door
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A place for dialogue and conversation around all things church. . . Marching Around the Walls. Have you heard the Bible story about Joshua and the walls of Jericho? Lately I’ve had a different response to this story,. Leaving me with some lingering questions. Didn’t the people inside Jericho think their side was somehow righteous and just? How did that work out? What did they think of this outside group poaching off their land and threatening their lives? What did they think of Rahab who betrayed them?
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All the time… | Castle Church Door
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A place for dialogue and conversation around all things church. . . All the time…. A word with special affection for the folks in Elmore. Pretty normal stuff, it seems to me. There is some grief work to be done here by all of us. And not to deny thatbut can I also share with you how confident I feel about this? If you’ve been around a church or Sunday School much you’ve probably heard this: God is goodall the time. And all the time, God is good. Yes? From → Uncategorized. Larr; He must increase…. Search ...
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Life Comes At You Fast | Castle Church Door
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A place for dialogue and conversation around all things church. . . Life Comes At You Fast. That’s an important question, not only for the kid in the upside-down car, but for all of us. We don’t know. Living in between grief and hope, we wait. I can’t help thinking of King David, who, when faced with uncertainty, asks, I lift my eyes to the hills, from where will my help come? 8211; Psalm 121:1. Life came at our Lord fast. Falsely accused. Tried. Condemned. Beaten. Mocked. Crucifi...We want to get on to ...
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A place for dialogue and conversation around all things church. . . So, please join the conversation. . . if you like it or are compelled by it then send it to your friends via Facebook or Twitter. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. As I write this...
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Awaiting the birth… | Castle Church Door
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A place for dialogue and conversation around all things church. . . Awaiting the birth…. A part of me wants to go all snarky about this. The hoo-hah and celebrity fervor surrounding the situation strikes me as unseemly in a world where children are routinely aborted before birth because they are unwanted or die soon after birth because of the poverty and turmoil into which they are born. Is this child any more valuable than any other nascent human being? Perhaps that’s much too anthromorphic a characteri...
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Which direction are you headed? | Castle Church Door
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A place for dialogue and conversation around all things church. . . Which direction are you headed? As we waited for our children to get off of the bus, I was talking to a neighbor of mine. He comes from Eastern Europe. The bus stop is in front of our church. As we were talking, he looked at our church and then at the Congregational Church that sits perpendicular to it across the street. His eyes danced back and forth between them. He turned to look at me. Don’t churches all face the same way? Is there a...
