Tag: grief
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NIMBY
…there are many among them that feel that the only way they will be listened to is through destruction. While many might decry that, the reality is that destruction is what sells.
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Planned Disruption
1 Samuel 16:1–5; Luke 14:28–33; James 4:13–17 (read online ⧉) But mouse-friend, you are not alone in proving foresight may be vain:the best-laid schemes of Mice and Men go oft awry,and leave us only grief and pain, for promised joy! Still, friend, you’re blessed compared with me! Only present dangers make you flee:But, ouch!, behind…
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A Busy In Between
Psalm 30; Luke 11:29–32; 1 Corinthians 15:50–58; 1 Peter 3:18–22 (read online ⧉) This is the day the LORD has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it.Psalm 118:24 I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.He suffered…
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The 3 Rs: Regret, Remorse, Repent
Matthew 27:3–4, Luke 17:1–4, Acts 8:9–25, Acts 16:22–34 (read online ⧉) According to Merriam-Webster… regret means (1)(a) to mourn the loss or death of, (b) to miss very much; (2) to be very sorry for remorse means (1) a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs, self-reproach repent means (1) to…
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Holy Innocents
Jeremiah 31:15–20, Matthew 2:13–23, Hebrews 2:11–18 (read online ⧉) In the Evangelical Church, and even in the so-called mainstream American Denominations, the day of Holy Innocents is often skipped over. It’s uncomfortable. It’s weird. To our sensibilities, it just makes no sense. Like so many of the stories in the Scriptures, we have a hard…
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Monday after the First Sunday of Advent
Micah 5:1-5 ,Haggai 2:5–9, Malachi 2:4–7 (read online ⧉) One of the biggest problems with peace…is us. Peace often does not reside well in our souls. We bear the world’s concerns as if they were our own. It is not that we are not to care about the world, but only God is capable of…
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Not All Good
Lamentations 3:16–33, Job 2:11–13 James 1:9–18 Wikipedia summarizes Nathan Robinson’s take on platitudes as: “A platitude is even worse than a cliché. It’s a sanctimonious cliché, a statement that is not only old and overused but often moralistic and imperious. … [they] have an aphoristic quality, they seem like timeless moral lessons. They therefore shape…
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Grace for the Askers
Luke 24:36–49, Matthew 28:16–20, James 1:2–18, Jude 20–25 So, this guy you’ve been hanging out with for three years dies a brutal death. A few days later, he’s alive. He was dead and buried, and now alive. Must be a ghost…except they could touch the wounds and he ate. They doubted. After some more time,…