Tag: incarnation
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Autumn Parish
We walk a route on streets we name and know,past gardens tucked and put to winter’s bed,through brilliant leaves that dance and drift aglowand carpet now the homeward path we tread.The time and space of life thus circumscribed,we live our span as strength and health allowbut chafe at limit strict these years implyand wish our…
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Tears as Prayers
The full meaning of our tears always escapes us, but they are taken into the gracious love of God, in Christ.
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temptation and love – a conversation with Jesus
When I hear again the story of your temptation, Jesus – when I read about those 40 days you spent out in the wilderness, there is one question that comes to my mind. Only one question, Jesus. It’s a question I can phrase in lots of different ways – it’s a question I can express…
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down by the riverside: the water flows endlessly
My sermon from today. In this I follow Tremper Longman’s interpretation of the ‘framing’ of the text by a second voice – his interpretation of the ‘conversation’ between Koheleth and this second voice. _____________________ Last week we began with the tree – and we are beginning there again this morning. We know that trees are…
encrusted words 