Avoiding self-righteousness
November 29, 2008
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Year: 2008
Abba
November 29, 2008
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The Cry to God as ‘Father’ in the New Testament is not a calm acknowledgement of a universal truth about God’s abstract fatherhood. It is the Child’s cry out of a nightmare.
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November 28, 2008
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Returner’s euphoria
November 28, 2008
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American Eagle, TJ Maxx, H&M, those are her haunts. But with bad economic news bombarding her daily, there’s something that brings the stylish Mancuso more pleasure than buying jeans and tops: returning those jeans and tops – unworn.
The early church in Hawaii
November 28, 2008
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In 1860 the King and Queen sent a request to the British Government for a Bishop and clergy to be sent out to them. After considering the claims of the Congregationalist form of church government, hitherto the only one officially recognised in the island;
Getting to know you
November 27, 2008
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Some thoughts on Thanksgiving
November 27, 2008
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A natural consequence of regularly saying “Thanks be to God” is that one begins to notice all the people in everyday encounters who are to be thanked for what they do. Saying “Thank you” to the checkout clerk at the store becomes specific, thanking her for the care she has taken to wrap my breakable items carefully. I find myself adding, “I hope you’re having a good day, too,” in response to her parting “Have a good day.”
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
November 27, 2008
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The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.
Happy Thanksgiving
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November 27, 2008
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A multi-religious dinner table always presents a bit of a problem when it is time to say the grace before meals. But Thanksgiving presents a particularly sticky situation, because it is the one occasion on which even the irreligious feel that some sort of invocation should be made. But who, or what, should we invoke?
A Thanksgiving litany
November 27, 2008
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Give thanks to the Lord who is good.
God’s love is everlasting.
Come, let us praise God joyfully.
Let us come to God with thanksgiving.
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