“I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.”- Psalm 119:30 Good morning, friends. I want to share a few thoughts that have come from the scripture I connected with via this morning’s “verse of the day” from Bible Gateway. It comes from one of the early sections of…
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Discipleship is a choice, and mostly it's tens, scores, hundreds, and thousands of small choices, moment by moment, every single day
Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. 98 Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. 100 I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. 101 I have kept…
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Yesterday’s post turned out to be an interesting phenomenon. Most visitors were able to read the title, see the picture of tonight’s “Presidential Debate” participants, and still understand that the post wasn’t about Republicans, or about Democrats, or partizan, but was designed to encourage all of us to think about how we engage the political process. But the…
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I have a lot of good stuff floating around my brain this morning. Ideas, directions, struggles, assurances, insights; thoughts about this practical, ongoing, study of faith we call “life.” I already talked about singing in church in yesterday’s blog. But then a couple of my friends sent me some good photographs and I started to…
This morning I’m wondering (out loud) about The Church. Not my local congregation at First Presbyterian, or even the Presbyterian denomination as a whole (although the PCUSA does play a role in this discussion), but the whole ball of wax, The Church, in all of its varied configurations. Beyond the question of The Church is…
