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Asking for what isn’t ours
We receive a GOD, who like Samuel, weeps over Saul and the people’s rejection. Or scatters seeds in strange places and allows them to grow, even without our help. Or sends us a promise in a new king,...
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King David’s Fathiness
When David was creeping on the roof, looking in windows like a perv, he saw this woman, naked, bathing. And in true Biblical form we’ll say that “lust was in his heart”. Which just sounds like the...
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Not a King
There’s a fundamental flaw in calling Jesus the king. But it isn’t just our perception of kings. It’s how it changes our relationship to Jesus. Photo by Mikes Photos from Pexels Proper 29B | 2 Samuel...
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We are all familiar with the saying “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”– John Dalberg-Acton. We also know that it doesn’t come from the Bible but from a historian, John...
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The Last Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 29BJohn 18:33-37 Collect Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords:...
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Who wants a King? – the seduction of power
Photo by William Krause on Unsplash Power, in good hands, is still our problem. About a century ago, the Roman Catholic Church named the last Sunday after Pentecost “Christ the King.” Moved by the...
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