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Harbour Lights: September 2008
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Untying the Knot. Chapter Five: Untying the Knot. 160;“I wonder how long it would take you to notice the recurrence of the seasons if you were the first man on earth. . What would it be like to live in open-ended time broken only by days and night? How long would you have to live on earth before you could feel with any assurance that any one particular period of cold would, in fact, end? It was the ...
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Harbour Lights: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - The Present
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Wednesday, October 01, 2008. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - The Present. We spend so much of our lives getting ready. To live. . Years ago I heard a mantra from Randy Harris that I think is terrific. . It has four parts. . I will be incompetent. That is not a goal, but a confession before the fact. . The standards I am pursuing are idealistic and important. . I will not abandon the ideal. . I will be incompetent. I will be fully present. . The ‘cap...
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Harbour Lights: June 2008
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Attitude is a Choice. I came across this quote this week. . Viktor Frankl– Man’s Search for Meaning. We who live in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. . Could we choose to be an encourager in desperate circumstances? 160;Would we give away our last morsels of bread? 160;Or could we do that in a thousand small ways? 160;I am sure that RM c...
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Harbour Lights: October 2008
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Spring. This is the penultimate chapter of the first half of. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. As Spring emerges, life makes itself visible again. The word that captured me on this reading was. Life heaves from the ground, water lifts through the trees. I wonder if we could be still and diligent at the same time. Could we listen to bird-song with a sense of wonder? In the Fall in. I would never stop to listen.
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Harbour Lights: February 2009
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Night Watch - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 12. Night Watch - Chapter 12. What I wonder is, does this happen to all of us when we are restless, or when we are thrust together in close proximity, or when worked into a frenzied state? Do we transform from a state of harmlessness into a destructive plague? I even wonder about the biblical plagues of locusts (Joel 1:4). Could that really be about us? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Harbour Lights: November 2008
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Monday, November 24, 2008. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Flood. The book turns here. "Flood" is about a washing away. She writes a report about Hurricane Agnes in 1972. I would never have thought of a blacksnake caught in a kitchen drawer! Does that happen at your house? I am not opening your drawers if that is happening at your house! Angels in the Outfield. Where the children see the pitcher and excitedly say, “You used to be Mel Clark! Before the flood) and.
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Harbour Lights: Exodus as Intentional Family Curriculum
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Exodus as Intentional Family Curriculum. These are notes from a Sunday Morning class I taught on October 26 at North Street. I want us to spend some time in Exodus. This is the foundation for a series of lessons I plan to preach in March and April of next year. This is gleaned from a lecture by. Grandparents help grandchildren remember. Exodus is an antidote to amnesia. Exodus is about tracing out connections. They are named Sh...
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Harbour Lights: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Fecundity (10)
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Wednesday, December 17, 2008. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Fecundity (10). When it comes to reproduction, do we feel differently about plants and animals? I think we do. One could be a subject of polite discussion and the other is not. Why do you suppose that is? Consider life in the waters, in the ponds and lakes and oceans. Do you ever consider how much life and death and left-overs are teeming in the waters? How does God consider the life of the barnacle?
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Harbour Lights: August 2008
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Looking at Life Through the Lens of God's Story. Sunday, August 24, 2008. Dangerous and Exciting Preaching? Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation. 1989, Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis. Preaching as an act of interpretation is in our time demanding, daring, and dangerous. (ix). The gospel is too readily heard and taken for granted, as though it contained no unsettling news and no unwelcome threat. (1). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Dangerous and Exciting Preaching? View my complete profile.