Tag: bible
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Your Name
Hopefully, you have a good relationship with your name. I often don’t know how to introduce myself, whether James or Jimmy. Very few people call me Jim and a good many call me Pipes. I don’t really know if who I introduce myself as ever actually sticks. Within a name is an association, and the…
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Hallow
Hallowed be your name. And now for a word we never use. We use the word holy a little more, but it is also a word that is infrequently used. For the angels the word holy is common fare. But we needed a verb in the prayer. We needed something to do. The prayer needed…
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In Heaven
Who is in the heavens? What we have here is a definite article (who is) followed by a preposition (in) followed by another definite article (the) Ho En Tois (who is in the) Ourenois (heavens) If you sound out how it looks, it’s almost poetry. We can shorten it to Our Father in Heaven. We…
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Ours
“When you pray,” He said. “Pray like this,” He said. Our… Two things, He did not put a timetable on how often, how many times a day or an exact moment of when. It’s just when. Yes, Paul writes, pray without ceasing, encouraging the conversation to keep going without end. The other thing is the…
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Lose Your Father Lose Your Son Lose Yourself
Maundy Thursday, washing feet and sharing a meal. This is what Jesus does the day before he goes to die. Before he goes to a garden to pray to ask His Father if there is another way. Good Friday, the crucifixion. He goes to the cross and cries out “My God, My God Why have…
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Pro-Wrestling Goes to Church Part I
I’ve wanted to write something like this for a decade and maybe I have. It’s hard to keep track of 323 blog entries. But I’ve wanted to write about how the world of professional wrestling internal and external operate as an at times ideal version on the Church. Now I know what you might be…
The Reconstructed 