Tag: Faith
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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 III
This is part III of a reflection on Pro Wrestling and Church and perhaps will be the hardest to articulate. Part I covered Faith and Truth, Part II covered Execution/Liturgy and Etiquette. This part will deal more with behind the curtain circumstances than the performance although they certainly are correlated. It is more about the…
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Pro Wrestling Goes to Church Part II
This is Part II of a reflection on Pro-Wrestling and Church. Part I focussed on Faith and Truth. This part focuses on the practical aspects of community. Execution/Liturgy I went to an Ash Wednesday Service recently at a Catholic Church. I like Ash Wednesday and as I grow older the more I like traditions. I…
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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…
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The Night We Walked on Water
Impetuosity is a word I have often heard associated with Peter. It is a word that would seem to accurately describe James and John (the Sons of Thunder) when their inclination was to call fire down from Heaven to burn a city. I think that impetuosity has two sides. Often we are so preoccupied with…
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Last Call: On Grief and Time
When someone my age dies, grief comes from all angles: from parents, from siblings, from friends, from children. The older ones carried the deceased as far as they could in the ways they knew how. The ones younger expected to be carried, guided, molded. But when someone…
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The God and the Ghost of Present Christmas
I read an Instagram post by Craig Groeschel about Christmas being a magnifier today. (For those of you who don’t know who Craig Groeschel is, he’s one of those muscular pastors that talks about how he doesn’t have time to dress himself in the morning) The intent of his post was to state how the…
The Reconstructed 