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Author Archives: maggiemax15
Abandonment
We have bought too heavily into the model of diagnosing moral failure and its consequences as disease rather than holding out healthy life choices and focusing on life affirming behavior. Maybe we have forgotten that human beings are moral agents … Continue reading
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Treasures and Light
The question of why a woman would choose to abort a pregnancy is similar to why a person feels it necessary to arm themselves. I’ve been a supporter of getting non-sporting weapons off the streets for decades. I still … Continue reading
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Fasting
In this middle section of Matthew 6 Jesus speaks a few lines about fasting. Starting with the 16th verse we read: “And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to … Continue reading
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Worried Scared
This whole idea of our need to defend the faith or more precisely defending our preferred doctrinal orthodoxy strikes me as a lack of trust in God…. Last Sunday, on Facebook, a Boston Terrier informed me that for dogs all … Continue reading
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A Template Prayer
The last phrase of the Lord’s prayer, as most of us repeat it, doesn’t exist– at least in the earliest manuscripts of Matthew. It’s a doxology that has been added and similar to the way we traditionally use debts or … Continue reading
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Looking Once Again at Job
It was a great question Satan asked “Does Job fear God for nothing?” It’s a good question for all of us. We who are blessed, like Job. Is our love for God founded on our belief that God is a … Continue reading
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“Enough! “It’s time to forgive and console…”
“Now,” Paul says, “it’s time to forgive and console” this person who had made life so ‘painful’ for Paul so that he won’t be overwhelmed by guilt, shame, sorrow. “Reaffirm your love for him” Paul tells the Corinthians. Because … Continue reading
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Called to Compassion
As the comforter comforts us, abides with us, accompanies us, comes beside us in our times of peril so we are called to accompany and comfort others. This is the result of what God has done for us. II Corinthians … Continue reading
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Pentecost
One does not exercise spiritual authority in the Religious Society of Friends. One is exercised by spiritual authority, if one is humble enough to follow the Guide closely. Acts 1; I Corinthians 12: Luke, in the first paragraphs of his … Continue reading
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The Bride of Christ – The Marriage of the Lamb
A plaque hangs over the changing table in the nursery of a church that quotes I Corinthians 15:51 We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed. How true, one more than one level. That is what it’s … Continue reading
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