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| Pocket Prayer: When Life is Good |
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O God, when my heart is full
and my cup of
life overflows,
remind me that all that comes to me is from your hand.
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| Questions of Faith and Doubt |
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How can
the God of
judgment and punishment, as often portrayed
in the Old
Testament, be reconciled with the concept of
a God of
love?
The trajectory of scripture reveals an
evolving sense of
who God is, how God works, what God hopes for
us, and
how God responds to our shortcomings.
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| Bookshelf |
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 Born Again and Again: Surprising Gifts of a Fundamentalist
Childhood
by Jon M. Sweeney
I found myself in an unusual predicament,
as I struggled
with feelings of wanting to step outside of
all that I knew. I
knew that where I was, and who I was trying
to be,
somehow was not my identity. The faith of my
fathers no
longer felt like it fit.
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God's Beloved Family |
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God is most like the very best that an earthly father can
possibly be, whether or not we happened to be blessed with
that particular father within our own nuclear family.
Fatherhood and family implies at least the possibility of
siblings-sisters and brothers who are equally beloved and
precious in God's eyes—so that, while our
relationship to God can be personal, it can never be private.
We are our brother's keeper if we really understand all
persons to be members, along with us, of God's
family.
To acknowledge God as "Our
Father" is to accept God's love for ourselves, but just as
importantly, to accept the responsibility to be a sister or
brother to every other human being.
from A
Father's Day Thought
by Bob Hansel
Where You Belong
This sense of belonging collectively to a people modeled for
me what it means to be in a community as one of
God's—for who I am, who I belong to, calls forth a
connection and recognition of a whole community and
history of a people. The whole village was responsible for
my raising because of a mandate from deep within the
history that we are called forth by and to the Creator.
from
What Gives Your Life Meaning?
by Lenn Harris Milam, M. Div.
Going into the World
…the call to discipleship is another kind of call. It has
always been a call to move out into the world whose streets
our Lord walked, to engage the world, to love it, to work for
its betterment and never to count the costs. Jesus' words
offer an important reminder that the family of God is larger
than our own family, that all people are God's children, and
therefore worthy of our own concern.
from
No Man Is an Island
by the Rev. Joanna Adams
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