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Category Archives: Living as Apprentices
I Wish You Joy
LIVING AS APPRENTICES Have you seen the video making the rounds this holiday season of the Air Force Band flash-mob-performance at the National Air and Space Museum? It begins with one cellist sitting on a chair in the middle of the … Continue reading
What I Read on my Vacation
QUOTES From Christianity Today (December 2013 issue) “When the Holy Spirit starts hovering, watch your back. Yes, the Spirit comes to assure us that our sins are forgiven (peace!) and that we are joined to Christ (love!) and that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity Today, John Grisham, Kiribati, Leadership Journal
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My Love Affair with the Jesuits
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I’ve had a love affair with the Society of Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers founded 500 years ago by the soldier-turned-mystic, Ignatius of Loyola, since I first learned about Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises. It … Continue reading
Camelot and the Kingdom of God
LIVING AS APPRENTICES It’s a cliché, but it’s probably true: If you are an American over 12 years of age you probably remember where you were when you learned that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. I was in the library … Continue reading
On the Way to Doing Something Else
LIVING AS APPRENTICES On the way to doing something else . . . isn’t that often how some of our best moments come about? Anyway, on the way to doing something else today I came across two lovely quotes from one … Continue reading
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Tagged Diary of Private Prayer, John Baillie, living with pain
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“Thaw the frost within us”
LIVING AS APPRENTICES Soften Us by Edwina Gateley O living God, soften us! Let the fire of Your love thaw the frost within us. Let the light of Your justice sear away our blindness. Let the grace of Your compassion heal … Continue reading
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“Victory is Absurdly Impossible to Everyone, except God”
LIVING AS APPRENTICES Sarah Young’s devotional, Jesus Calling, has become the “quiet time” reading of choice for many Christians. I have gone through this book several times and been blessed. We even give it away to the participants in our Apprentice … Continue reading
Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So!
LIVING AS APPRENTICES Mike Rowe has been the host of a TV show called Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel for eight seasons. That experience has profoundly changed his attitudes about success. Recently he compared our perceptions of someone who doesn’t achieve the American dream … Continue reading
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Tagged false narratives, Mike Rowe, Psalm 107, redemption, The Good and Beautiful God
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