Category: Galatians
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Erase the Lines
Have you ever had one of those days when you didn’t feel like you belong? Maybe you’re somewhere new…somewhere different…and you’re not confident you’re going to fit in? When I was a college student, there was a woman I dated during my junior year. (This was, of course, before I’d been swept off my feet by…
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What’s Right
So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 We live in a transactional world. We do things because we receive things. We go to work, so that we earn a living We loan someone money, expecting repayment…
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Water Always Wins
June 6, 1965, 57 years ago today, my parents brought me to the baptismal font at Diamond Lake Lutheran Church in south Minneapolis. There, they held me over the font while Pastor Gordon Bergin poured water over my head 3 times: “In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in…
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Mission Jamaica: Day 4
The team’s scripture verse for the day: “My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill[b] the law of Christ.” –…
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Identity
May 11-12, 2013 Grace and peace to you, from God our Creator and from Jesus Christ, who calls us his own. Amen. Developmental psychologists tell us that one of the primary tasks of a person who grows through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood, is the development of their own identity. New research has shown that…