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Home is where you’re wanted
It’s Canada Day. It’s a day we celebrate our identity as Canadians and our beautiful home, in Canada. They say the best part of travelling abroad is coming home. The first time that hit home for me was when in … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Meditation, Theological Reflection
Tagged bible, Canada, Canada Day, celebration, Christian, Christian Meditation, Christianity, contemplation, discipleship, environment, following Jesus, generosity, God, good news, Gospel, gospels, home, house, household, inclusivity, indigenous, Jesus, lifestyle, Meister Eckhart, New Testament, personal, reconciliation, relationships, sermon, settler people, spirituality, spirituality of subtraction, theology of the cross, wisdom, wisdom teachers, Worship
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The way the story is told
Look at the man whose community has judged as possessing a legion of demons. He has been pigeon-holed. Ostracized. Bullied. Looked down upon. Pitied. The man whom they looked upon, and said to themselves, ‘Thank God it’s not so bad … Continue reading
Posted in Theological Reflection
Tagged bible, Canada, challenge, change, community, demon, devil, discipleship, evil, following Jesus, freedom, Gerasene demoniac, God, good news, Gospel, grace, growth, healing, heaven, Holy Spirit, imprisoned, indigenous, Jesus, justice, Luke, Lutheran, mental health, mission, National Indigenous Peoples Day, New Testament, Pentecost, poor, poverty, preaching, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Paul, salvation, schadenfreude, sermon, sin, story, story-telling, transformation, Worship
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Kitchen vision
During Mika’s confirmation last weekend, I was grateful to reconnect with folks from her past and present, and hopefully future. At Mika’s confirmation party on the Saturday, we had just over thirty people in our house. It was raining, so … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Meditation, Theological Reflection
Tagged behaviour, bible, Book of Revelation, challenge, change, cheap grace, Christianity, community, confirmation, cost of discipleship, Cross, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, differences, discipleship, diversity, division, divisions, Easter, fear, following Jesus, food, gift, good news, Gospel, grace, growth, inclusion, inclusivity, introverts, kitchen, Laurence Freeman, New Testament, party, peace, persecution, prayer, preaching, privilege, sermon, table, theology of the cross, universal, vision, witness, words
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The musical performance
“You are witnesses of these things,” Jesus tells his followers.[1] What does it mean, ‘to be a witness’ to all that happened around Jesus over two thousand years ago? How can we be a witness to these things with which … Continue reading
Posted in Enneagram, Theological Reflection
Tagged Back to Church, Beethoven, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, bible, body, children, Christian, city view, contemplation, courage, discipleship, Easter, enneagram, evangelism, faith, fear, feeling, following Jesus, God, Gospel, grace, heart, Holy Spirit, hope, human, incarnation, Jesus, joke, Laurence Freeman, Leonard Bernstein, love, Michael Harvey, miracle, mission, missional, music, natural, nature, new life, New Testament, orchestra, ordinary, Ottawa, outreach, Paul, performance, power, preaching, proclamation, resurrection, Richard Rohr, Saint Paul, sermon, Society of Saint John the Evangelist, Spring, SSJE, sympony, Unlocking the Growth, weather, witness, witnesses, Worship
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Traveling stones: a pilgrimage lesson in letting go
In the sixth century Saint Benedict said, “A monk should have death always before his eyes.”[1] ‘Death’ doesn’t need to refer only to our physical demise at the end of life but to any loss experienced in life. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Meditation, photos, Theological Reflection
Tagged Atlantic Ocean, Benedict, bible, Cabo da Roca, Camino de Santiago, Camino del Norte, Cape Disappointment, church, coast, Corinthians, Dead Man's Cove, death, discipleship, failure, faith, Fisterra, following Jesus, glory, God's reign, grace, hiking, hope, Isaiah, journey, learning, lectionary, letting go, life, Lisbon, Long Beach Peninsula, Lord's Prayer, Lutheran, maturity, Muxia, New Testament, Old Testament, Pacific Ocean, Paul, peace, pilgrimage, Portugal, prayer, preaching, Richard Rohr, ritual, sermon, Spain, spiritual growth, spirituality, stones, teaching, trust, walking, Washington, water, west, wisdom, Worship
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