Tag: prayer
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Before I Speak – Matthew 7:1-12
Do to otherswhat you would have them do to you. A beautiful sentence.Simple enough for a child to remember,deep enough to follow for a lifetime. It sounds gentle on the tongue,but it reaches everywhere—into thought,into tone,into the private verdicts we passbefore we know the facts. How quickly we judgeas though we see everything,as though motives…
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When No One Sees – Matthew 6:1-18
She was raisedto think often about righteousness.Her father was a Pharisee.She learned to do what was right,and she did it well. So when the rabbi said,Be careful,she was startled. What danger could there bein righteousness? Then he named it:doing holy thingsto be seen. Giving to the poor—the law had always made roomat the edge of…
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To Be With Me Where I Am – John 17
The world keeps score.Finland, for seven years, sits at the topof happiness rankings—clean air, quiet lakes, long days.Australia is close, they say.But we know better.We who live saturated lives,bright with choices,but dimmed at the edgesby a restlessness we cannot name. Where is the joy the Bible speaks of?Where is the peace that surpasses?We scroll. We…
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Staying Soft
When I was a teenager, I heard someone say something that stayed with me: that he was lucky because he got paid to do what he would gladly do for nothing. He was a minister—an evangelist, to be precise—and his job was to tell people what he knew about God. And people paid him to…
The Afterword 