Category: Church-y
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Reel Spirituality: Or, how movies are like God’s love letter to me
Hint: It’s all about the stories. And redemption.
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Remembering you are the light…when you feel like death
A deovtional for when you forget to remember that you, even bad days you, are the light.
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A 2020 Advent Devotional…For the rest of us
If you’re wondering about where God is, or if He takes burnt offernings of bitterness, then this is the devotion for you.
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For a time such as this (new essay)
So, I wrote a piece about the “new” Aladdin. Yay! But a side note: for one, it’s not new; it’s an ages-old story. And two, I’m still having a hard time with things from the nineties being called “old.” You got it wrong. They are modern classics. 🙂 Meanwhile, carrying…
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Christmas and spinning the plates
It’s not up to me to spin the plates, conjure up all the wonder for this season. So often, I forget, among the gifts and the baking until midnight. A reminder to all of us that the wonder is with us and in the small things.
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Bookended by grief
O Lord, how long? I wonder silently, busying myself in the kitchen so perhaps it’s not so noticeable to my family, that I am really worrying way too much lately. “Mom?” The littlest says, “Why are you quiet?” I’m a quiet person by nature, but at home–he’s right: it’s an…
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The Church
Recently, a friend of mine in a writer’s group invited us to share our thoughts and opinions about the church with her, as she wanted to do a series of essays of different views about the church. Views about the church as a whole; what the church gets right, gets wrong…
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Just listening
Can we be honest here? I’m not sure what the hell I’m supposed to be doing. While I’ve had (what I’ve felt over the course of several years) was a calling from God to write, I’m not so sure anymore. There have been things that have developed (now that I…
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Five Minute Friday – Worship
Hi there, friend. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? So, life throws you curveballs sometimes and sometimes those curveballs are beautiful, wonderful little cherubs called babies, and that’s what has happened here. And I’m beyond blessed. However, these little curveballs wrapped in cute dimpled flesh also have agendas of their…
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Children of Noah
So as the story goes we’re all children of Noah, right? If you follow the Old Testament and read the Bible and remember all the stuff that went down about that flood, if you have any belief at all in Christ or in God, if you remember the story, the…
Liz Rasley 