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Dec 2017
A Prayer for Holy Week’s Transformational Power My prayer, as we go into Holy Week, is that we will hear Jesus’s story. Hear it so deeply, with all its jarring realities and winning joys, that it captures our hearts and makes us new people. This can happen because Holy Week not only “reviews” the story that most powerfully shows God’s love, it invites us to participate in it; it gives us many dramatic and tangible ways to transform our own stories with Christ’s good and glorious one. Holy Week Challenges Our Comfortable Ideas About......
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08
Dec 2017
A Prayer for Holy Week’s Transformational Power My prayer, as we go into Holy Week, is that we will hear Jesus’s story. Hear it so deeply, with all its jarring realities and winning joys, that it captures our hearts and makes us new people. This can happen because Holy Week not only “reviews” the story that most powerfully shows God’s love, it invites us to participate in it; it gives us many dramatic and tangible ways to transform our own stories with Christ’s good and glorious one. Holy Week Challenges Our Comfortable Ideas About......
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16
Sep 2003
“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.” James 4:8 “Draw near” is an invitation God extends to everyone, not just Christians. The reward for drawing near is nothing less than God’s presence–he draws near to us in turn! This promise is one we can easily make to our family and friends. God is not magic, nor is he a divine vending machine (prayer goes in, answer comes out), but he does promise to get closer to us when we get closer to him, and that’s where amazing, miraculous things......
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16
Jan 2003
Draw Near to God and He Will Draw Near to You Where did our Lenten and Holy Week theme come from? Jeanne Olsen fills us in. It was just after Holy Week last year. I had been praying for folks I had hoped would come to our Holy Week services. Some of them did, some of them didn’t. But our services had been so good! I hoped that somehow, more people would attend next year. Then I had a dream. First I saw the words “Draw near to God, and He will......
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