Tag: freedom
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New poem: “Geometry of Advent”
A new poem for the second Sunday of Advent (2017): And here is the poem within an alternative geometry (click on the poem/image to open it in a more readable format):
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love, knowledge, idols — priorities!
We are not defined by what we know. We are not defined by our freedoms. We are defined by the fact that we are known by God and loved by God. Our starting point in all of life and thought and action is the knowledge that the one God has created us and embraced us.
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the Spirit of freedom – sermon 3/5
Who doesn’t want to be free? There is something so compelling about the idea of freedom. In our lives, in our culture, and in the wide world there is a desire for freedom – a desire that comes to expression in so many ways. Yes there are sometimes different ideas about what it means to…
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full and free
Let me begin this morning with something a little unusual, perhaps – let me begin by asking about the difference between a thief and a robber. An unusual place to begin, yes, but as good a place as any, as we’ll soon see. As we think about the thief and the robber, we realize pretty…
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sarah harmer’s take…
Canadian musician Sarah Harmer has a new album out next month, but in advance her label has released a single from the album entitled ‘Captive’. You can hear it on her website, here. I was struck by the logic of the lyrics. The song-writer points to our sometime inability to live well within a relationship (thus,…
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fenced in and free…
If you are anything like me, you’ve got a love-hate relationship with the mirrors in your home. You wake up in the morning to get ready for the day, you go into the bathroom, look in the mirror and wonder to yourself did that zit really have to come out on the end of my…
encrusted words 