A Season of Proclamation
There’s a rhythm to the Church Year, and it goes like this: preparation, fulfillment, proclamation; preparation, fulfillment, proclamation.Look at the first half of the year. The first season, Advent, is a period of PREPARATION...
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Read more: The Voice: Summer 2010
Spring: A Time for Cross Training.
In our world, it seems the words “spiritual” and “discipline” don't always go together. I would contend that discipline is required for Christian spirituality, no genuine Christianity, without some kind of spiritual discipline...
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Following in the Footsteps of Jesus
EVERYONE IS FOLLOWING SOMEONE. Take my son Peter for example. Lately, he has been in the habit of stepping into my wingtips and announcing to the rest of the family, “I’m David.” He will holler “Meg!” to Mary Cate across the house—she is Meg in this arrangement...
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Pandora, The New Adam, And God-given Gifts
 Pandora was the first woman, according to the greeks. Her name means literally “all the gifts,” since according to mythology, all of the gods had a hand in her creation. The story goes that each deity endowed her with a unique “gift,” gifts that were actually punishments the pantheon wished to inflict upon humankind—toil, disease, death and “a myriad other pains,” as the poet Hesiod describes. All of these were released on the world when “Pandora’s Box” was opened, and humanity has suffered ever since.
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