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Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: Spoils of War

July 6, 2015 13 Comments

Today we wrestle with one of the most destructive passages in the Hebrew Bible.

Speaking to the Soul: The Power of Expectations

July 5, 2015 No Comments

Perhaps a definition of a miracle is an event that not just defies but shatters expectations.

Speaking to the Soul: Independence Day

July 4, 2015 1 Comment

Be patient? How long must people be patient for there to be equality, justice, and an ability, no, a right to be all that they can be?

Speaking to the Soul: By the Hand

July 3, 2015 No Comments

Can God change a world that is “still breathing threats and murder”? The example of Saul shows us how it’s done.

Speaking to the Soul: Hallelujah!

July 2, 2015 1 Comment

Hallelujah! Praise the Name of the Lord; give praise, you servants of the Lord. – Psalm 135:1 From outside my studio window come the sounds

Speaking to the Soul: Not for Sale

July 1, 2015 No Comments

Today’s Scripture reading connects God’s people with the gifts and powers that should be ours without price.

Speaking to the Soul: Rejection and Resilience

June 30, 2015 No Comments

Let’s also learn from how Jesus handles rejection. It doesn’t ruin his day. It doesn’t put him into an inert funk. It energizes him. He accepts it as a challenge and he passes that challenge on to us.

Speaking to the Soul: hiding behind your “stuff”

June 29, 2015 No Comments

1 Samuel 10:17-27 In today’s reading from 1 Samuel, Samuel has announced to the people that Saul is to be their king, and the people

Speaking to the Soul: chasing donkeys

June 28, 2015 No Comments

Although very few of us have actually gone out to chase cantankerous wayward donkeys, what they represent is a common occurrence in life–that whole business of thinking our focus is on a specific task in life–yet, in the end, something else happens, and it turns out that what ultimately happened was actually the true focus in the story.

Speaking to the Soul: Cornelius Hill

June 27, 2015 2 Comments

Life is precious and there should be no room for racism, homophobia, or privilege that doesn’t see what that privilege costs others. Cornelius Hill fought that kind of privilege; his people revered him for it.