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Ian

Hearts and Ashes

‌Psalm 32; Isaiah 58:1-12; Hebrews 12:1-14 ‌Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Psalm 32:1 ‌The LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden,…

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Ian

Our Blindings

Read: Luke 13:23-30 “For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord, and he examines all their paths.” Proverbs 5:21 (NRSVue) ‌When you read the passage (Luke 13:23-30), what did you focus on? Did you focus on Jesus’ command to enter the narrow door?…

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Ian

Successfully Unsuccessful

Psalm 144; Song of Solomon 8:5–14; John 11:45–57 ISV A great deal of water cannot extinguish love, rivers cannot put it out. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, he would surely be viewed with contempt. Song of…

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Ian

Perspective and Significance

Psalm 144; Ezekiel 19:10–14; 1 Peter 2:4–10 (ISV) In the fictional universe housing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written by Douglas Adams), there is a machine called the Total Perspective Vortex. Originally built (per the fictional universe) to provide beings a comparison of themselves…

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Ian

Too Busy To Live

Exodus 5:7-9; Romans 8:5-8, 12-17 Recently, there was a song going around the internet called the "Rich Men North of Richmond". It mostly speaks to the anguish of a working man who is striving and working and is not making ends meet, and, yes, there…

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