July 2013
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Devotion: Persistent in Prayer
Prayer … Have you ever felt like the man in this picture when you’ve prayed? There are times when we are desperate, when we feel that we have no options … so, we pray. These are the times that St. John of the Cross said are the “dark nights of the soul”. As people of…
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Devotion: Jesus Makes A Difference
My apologies for being late with the devotion for this week. I left after worship on Sunday to head to Mar-Lu-Ridge Camp and Retreat Center with a few of our confirmation students. We joined confirmands from other congregations from the Metro DC Synod and the Delaware-Maryland Synod for a week of Confirmation Camp. For the devotions this…
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Devotion: And who is my neighbor?
You may know that I am working on my doctoral program through Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Through much of this past week while I was in St. Paul, we used fancy terminology about what the church is and what the church does, but much of it really boiled down to this question asked…
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Devotion: Is God Here, Too?
This week, I have been in three distinct cultures: Northern Virginia, Coastal North Carolina, and St. Paul, MN. I have talked with congregation members, people in life-and-death circumstances, a woman living in her car, and people with overwhelming utility bills. I have gone from living in our own comfortable, climate-controlled home to living out of…
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