(a short prayer for if you are leading a bible class) Lord,Thank you that as we read your word we come to your table and eat the bread of life. Help us to come with hungry hearts and thirsty minds, so that we can fill up on kingdom life. May we leave with more love, hope...
What I mean was I didn’t take the class to read him, I took it to learn about religion–God, prayer, ritual, the Madonna mother-goddess figure, forgiveness, miracles, sin, abortion, death, the big moral concepts. Because obviously I am not eighteen and I work, so school is not ...
The sound of church bells is a message to the forces of fanaticism and sectarianism (and even to the smug non-Christian who deems Christians as second-class citizens) that churches, as well as the human Christian life and evocative prayer chants within its heart, will not be silenced. As ...
In this form, characterized by its writing for double chorus (with two continuo parts), the work was performed in the Thomaskirche on March 30, 1736, with the cantus firmus parts in the opening and closing choruses of part 1 played on the ‘swallow’s nest’ organ. Also at Easter the ...
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose”. In closing, I’d like to say that my sole intention in delivery of this testimony is to bring glory to God, our Father. I felt compelled to do so, by shari...
And it seemed to me that they had combined to send to the world a prayer, to utter a cry of appeal, to demand something that should come into effect later when we understood things better. It seemed to me that all these victims, their throats cut, poisoned, hung, asphyxiated, or ...
The alien came to the library again, shortly before closing time, and quickly found a book. “May this entity borrow The Complete History of Knitting?” They always return the book they borrow after five minutes, but the ritual of checking it out seems important to them. ...
” askedDavie, “We are just doing what you told us.”“Well, for now, you guys can go outside and play. Be back before dark, and I’ll have dinner ready.” The boys did not attest to this and immediately made it to the door, closing it behind them politely, to hikethreestories...
I am SO tired of being at home and so frustrated watching as the world reopens to others how it is closing to us. I worry that if I don’t keep up with regular pruning, that the master gardener might have some more dramatic cutting back to do. One other thought.. My pruning this...
Bourjaily’s preface claimed that it was only “the closing of our first series,” but if there’s a second series, it’s coming on the same train as Godot. The goal of publishing a ground-breaking literary magazine seems to have been doomed from the start. Bourjaily blamed the failure ...