Tag: creation
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Breath and Breathless
My latest in the Christian Courier… __________________ It is good to celebrate our embodied life in God’s creation. The men (they are mostly men) arrive at the clinic and take their seats in the waiting room. It’s a nondescript medical office with a busy receptionist, examination rooms and various types of medical equipment. This clinic…
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A Christmas Prayer
My latest column in the Christian Courier is a prayer for Christmas. __________________ Praise to you, O living Word, for you give the gift of our world. You are the creating one through whom ancient Laurentian mountains have their craggy existence. By your imaginative power, forests of black spruce, larch, and balsam grow along ridges…
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Kierkegaard – God – Movement
The second of two reflections I offered on the prayers of Kierkegaard at the retreat of The Presbyterian College this year. Like everything, Kierkegaard looks “slant” at the idea of God’s immutability. — If there is anything that gives the impression of unchangeableness, it is perhaps the towering and intimidating mountains that populate the face…
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the Spirit in Creation – nature and spirituality (1/5)
When we think about our spiritual lives – when we think about our relationship with God – each one of us will have special moments that stand out for us. Each of us will be able to think back to particular moments when we felt a special closeness to God. Moments when we were particularly…
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Creating a world with our words #sermon #proverbs
God spoke – and the dome of the sky was there in all its glorious blue. God spoke – and moving, shifting, heaving waters came together in the sea. God spoke – and the Baobab tree, wild grasses, flowering bushes were planted. God spoke – and in the night’s sky there was the Orion nebula,…
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Down by the Riverside – the rivers of creation
Within the second creation narrative of Genesis there is a moment of pause – a kind of aside. Within the second creation narrative we have first of all the formation of the earth creature, the man, from dust of the earth. Then we have the garden established by God with trees and fruit that provide…
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creation, prayer, thanksgiving
Our God, we remember before you the astonishing gifts of creation – this morning we think especially of the variety of sea creatures. There is the bulky and wizened walrus, immediately recognizable with its tusks and whiskers – an ancient creature that looks its age. We think of whales, from the massive, deep-diving Blue Whale,…
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celebrating difference…
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. That’s the title of a book, of course, by American author and relationship counselor John Gray. He argues that women and men represent distinct worlds – it’s like they’re from different planets. And he tries to describe these different worlds or planets. In this well-known book, many…
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celebrating water…
This past Sunday we marked earth day with a creation focus – specifically, on water. The service included this photographic presentatino, wtih cameos from a number of our friends and members. The music is ‘Wavy Glass’, in the creative commons from Podington Bear:
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Soundboards and Spinach
I offered the following reflection at our Jazz Vespers this past weekend. I have borrowed heavily for this from Jeremy Begbie’s book Resounding Truth. ____________________________ In his wonderful book Resounding Truth, Christian theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie reminds us that within the Christian tradition the world is not…
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