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Introduction: Daily Thoughts for Lent 2013
February 16, 2013, 0 Comments

With the early arrival of Lent and Easter this year, we hardly have had time for a breath since following […]
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Keeping the Sabbath – Week 4
March 29, 2012, 0 Comments

From the Gospel of Mark 2:23-27: One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way […]
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Keeping Sabbath – Week 3
March 16, 2012, 0 Comments

Turns out humans are not the only ones for whom God provides a sabbath. Leviticus 25:1-7 reads: The Lord spoke […]
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Keeping Sabbath – Week 2
March 16, 2012, 0 Comments

The commandment from God to “Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy” first appears in the Bible in the […]
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Keeping Sabbath | Recommended Resources for Study
March 16, 2012, 0 Comments

Bass, Dorothy C., Receiving the Day. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Heschel, Abraham Joshua, The Sabbath. New […]
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Paying Attention
March 1, 2012, 0 Comments

Dear Good People of Mystic Congregational Church! The instruction to “pay attention” was lost on me as a five-year-old. My kindergarten teacher, […]
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Keeping Sabbath – Week 1
February 27, 2012, 0 Comments

This Lent… Give It a Rest Sabbath is intentional time taken by individuals and faith communities to integrate the Divine […]
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This Lent…Give It a Rest
February 27, 2012, 0 Comments

As our schedules become more crammed, squeezing out time to rest in God becomes more difficult. This Lent you are […]
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Begin Re-entry Process
May 10, 2011, 0 Comments

Last night our hosts took us to the Outback Steakhouse in Seoul for our final dinner together. Steak and salad […]
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Disappearing Waistlines
May 9, 2011, 0 Comments

Now you see ‘em; now you don’t…our waistlines, that is. We were warned before our departure that we would come […]
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