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Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego

April 13, 2013 1 Comment

Then Nebuchadnezzar was so filled with rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face was distorted. He ordered the furnace to be heated up

Alone

April 13, 2013 4 Comments

by Linda Ryan Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. — Martin Luther According to

What abides in me

April 11, 2013 No Comments

Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in

Passion, Eros, and Resurrection

April 10, 2013 17 Comments

by Donald Schell “My Eros is crucified.” Still now, forty-five years later, I remember how startled I was when I first read that use of

Pastoral ministry as selling

April 7, 2013 4 Comments

by George Clifford What makes for a great bishop, dean, rector, or vicar? One vital part of the answer to that question is that the

Magic Rocks or Living Stones

April 7, 2013 No Comments

Psalm 146, 147 (Morning) Psalm 111, 112, 113 (Evening) Isaiah 43:8-13 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-7 1 Peter 2:2-10: Like newborn infants, long for the

Good news on the street corner

April 6, 2013 No Comments

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized them

Changing the familiar

April 5, 2013 No Comments

by Linda Ryan I had the radio on last night, listening to my favorite classical station as I tried to drift off to sleep. The

The Unlikely Messiah

April 4, 2013 1 Comment

Everyday Mysteries With others she manages a website for the Diocese of Colorado highlighting congregations’ creative ministries:

Revisiting Romans: Justification, Sin and Faithfulness

April 2, 2013 2 Comments

…the event of the Cross is not an expiatory sacrifice demanded by an angry Father who sacrifices his son, but rather a voluntary and loving self-offering of Godself which resets and redeems the brokenness in the divine-human relationship,