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Wednesday 20th February 2013
#TellHisStory: The Great Rescue
The morning’s first light, blue and mellow, pooled on the kitchen table. She lit a candle before the children awoke. She lit that candle like a torch, like it was the right way to honor the presence of something so lovely. She was answering the light with light. She looked out toward ...
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Friday 24th February 2012
The Paradoxical Adoration of Misfits and Wretches
I stood by the organ that day, snapping frame after frame. I zoomed in, finding the baby — round and pink with wonder. And I moved the Nikon to find his beaming mother, with her soft eyes open wide. The pastor asked the Daddy to help sprinkle the water. I clicked the shutter, fighting ...
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Wednesday 24th March 2010
A Christian Family at a Passover Table
We’ll decorate the kitchen table with dying palm branches curling on the edges — the branches that we waved while shouting “Hosanna! Hosanna!” We’ll ask the question: Why is this night different from all other nights? We’ll wash our daughters’ feet. ...
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Wednesday 24th March 2010
A Messianic Passover Seder for Families with Children
A Messianic Passover Seder for Families with Young Children Researched, written and compiled by Jennifer Dukes Lee(You may print and use. Feel free to make age-appropriate adjustments.) We participate in this meal on what is known in Christian tradition as “Maundy Thursday,” or the ...
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Friday 19th March 2010
That Was Then, This is Now
Exactly one month ago, my favorite farmer was pushing snow from our driveway by bucket-loads. He’d come in at night, stamping snow from his boots, saying he’d run out of room to put it all. Where could he push another bucket-load? And I looked at the stacks and the piles in our ...
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Wednesday 17th March 2010
The Sin That So Easily Entangles
Sometimes the sin feels so heavy,we don’t know if we’ve the strength to heave it.That must have been how the woman felt that day, when she came to me crying. I was sitting at the lunch table, with half-a-dozen others at a women’s retreat. She grabbed my elbow and pleaded. ...
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Wednesday 24th February 2010
A “Me” Fast
The pastor’s words are lodged in my Lenten heart: “Do something that is big,” he tapped out on the keyboard. “Do something that will change your life.” His name is Craig, and he’s an old high school classmate who leads a vibrant and growing church in Omaha, ...
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Monday 22nd February 2010
The Cure for Spiritual Dryness
She shakes her head and looks up from her prayer journal, giggling over words about rattling, ol’ dry bones. “I don’t get it, Mommy,” she says. “I don’t get how this works.” And I’m like my five-year-old daughter: I don’t entirely understand ...
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Wednesday 17th February 2010
Where To Go With All Of This
I look out the dining-room window as he makes another sweep through the driveway with the tractor. He’s been out there all day pushing snow in our driveway, and his mother’s driveway, and out by the hog barns. But it keeps blowing back in, stubborn as it is in this wind. The sun is ...
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For the High Calling: “I had over-yessed myself.”