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Alan Steele | Everyone In
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All posts by Alan Steele. 8220;Wine” means wine. June 25, 2014. A summary defense of the use of wine in communion. By Tim Gallant Biblical Studies Center. Leaving aside the matter of one prayer rather than two, why do we employ grace juice instead of wine? There have been two primary defenses of this move to grape juice. First, it is claimed by some that the original practice. What follows is by no means an exhaustive treatment of this subject, but I do wish to address these points very briefly. The earl...
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knowing God | earthy monk
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A little blog of soul fullness. You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘knowing God’ category. Musings on the Kingdom (Lenora Rand). October 2, 2015 in discipleship. This Blog post is a repost from Red Letter Christians written by Lenora Rand. Lenora’s blog, Spiritual Suckitude. Is about figuring out how to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God, while working in corporate America and trying to get the laundry done. She is also co-founder of The Plural Guild. God is not white...
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God’s love | earthy monk
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A little blog of soul fullness. You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘God’s love’ category. 8220;Turned Upside Down” (Fr. Thomas Keating). June 21, 2016 in Awareness. Everything is important when one is opening to Christ-consciousness. This awareness transforms our worldly concepts of security into security of accepting, for love of God, an unknown future. 8220;The love of God will take care of the rest of the journey … ”. More on Grace: the messiness of it all. Is that it is. Grace is...
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Decaf Faith | earthy monk
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A little blog of soul fullness. July 22, 2015 in Awareness. If most of us are honest, we would say we prefer having a decaffeinated faith: it tastes like the real thing, but it is guaranteed to not keep us awake. I don’t want decaf faith. I want a faith that wakes me up – fully human, fully alive – prepared to be Present to all of life, good, bad, ugly, beautiful, pain and joy. And God is Love! And therein lies my faith standard of measurement:. Does my faith in God wake me up. And does it lead me to Love.
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Simply…Love | earthy monk
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A little blog of soul fullness. July 15, 2015 in encountering God. It seems so simple, so obvious; this life of faith we are called to live. But in light of the heinous actions we have seen in the media and in our world lately killing of black Christians by a racist zealot, religious hatred and bigotry, choosing nationalism over biblical mandates that it appears to be far from simple. What is so simple is this:. God is Love; and if we love God then we must love AS God loves – unconditionally. But it is s...
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who. Is. | earthy monk
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A little blog of soul fullness. I am a lover of, and friends with, God. I am a follower of Jesus. I hunger and work for mercy, healing, peace, love, compassion, community and the Earth. My calling is as a Shepherd. My life mission is summed up by Leo Tolstoy – “grow spiritually and help others to do [the same]; for it is the meaning of life. I was a ‘pained soul’ but now thanks to God I’m a. My grandest Dream is to start a healing retreat center modeled something after the. Follow Blog via Email. 8220;Lo...
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Loving God | earthy monk
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A little blog of soul fullness. You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘Loving God’ category. Minor Musing: Litmus Test of Love. September 23, 2015 in Awareness. I give you a new. Commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved. You, you also should love. One another. By this [expression of love]. Everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. How we love one another. I believe the calling card for our faith is revealed by how well we love.
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prayer | earthy monk
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A little blog of soul fullness. You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘prayer’ category. Lord, I believe but…. July 19, 2016 in Hope. There is a story in the Gospels about a man with a sick child, believing that Jesus can heal his child, comes to Jesus and says the most amazing thing,. Lord, I believe but help my unbelief. If that verse of Scripture were translated exactly as it was in the Aramaic, it would be more truthfully written,. And it is enough. March 21, 2016 in prayer. The dis...
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open windows & unlocked doors: How To Be A Poet
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Open windows and unlocked doors. The journey from poetry to yoga but no secrets for weight loss. How To Be A Poet. Some people visit graveyards. To make rubbings of the gravestones they find there;. Usually those of relatives. They do this by putting a piece tracing paper on the stone,. Then rubbing across it with charcoal or a pencil,. Until they’ve reproduced the words of stone. To be a poet, you need. To hold up a really big. Piece of tracing paper to your life,. Then rub it and rub it and rub it.
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Archive Good News | Alden Swan dot com
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It’s All About Me. The Suggested Reading List. Alden Swan dot com. Free speech, critical thinking, and really good coffee. Grace is still the thing. Then he said it again; I hadn’t mis-heard. “Exercise your holiness option.” It was like they had a booster switch they could flip to throw them into light speed. Can we choose to be sinless? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? There is no “holiness option.” The only 2 options are self-righteousness, and grace...If the main p...
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