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Migrating This Blog

Hey everyone – I’m grateful you’re reading this and that you’ve ever read anything from me here! In the next week or so, I’ll be moving all the posts and content from this site to a new location: claypotchronicles.com. That makes sense, huh?! Since I began blogging almost two years ago, I’ve always used the [...]

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Ortberg on the Image of God

My wife asked me recently why all I ever do is quote other people on my blog?!  I guess that’s where I’m at these days … I read something intriguing or provocative and want to share it, but I’m not really constructive with my own thoughts.  Maybe that will come around again, but until then, [...]

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Dealing with the Mystery of Trinity

So, it’s the “day after” Trinity Sunday and I’m all caught up in the mystery! Yesterday, my message at The Bridge Community was terribly short and shallow.  We were meeting outdoors and having a cookout and party afterward, so it just didn’t feel appropriate to plumb the depths of the mystery of the Godhead while [...]

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An Open Letter to God, In the Wake of the Haiti Earthquake

Dear God, I want to jump right in with the questions: Why? Where are you? How long?  But, first, let me say, “I trust you.”  At least, I want to. In weeks like this last one, honestly, it’s harder to do. This planet just doesn’t make sense sometimes.  I’ve gotten to see quite a few [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Suffering

Gracious God, all around me people are suffering. When I turn away from my own problems, I feel sorrow for the problems of others. Through the news, the media, and my conversations, I am daily confronted with the pain and suffering of so many innocent people in my life and in the world. Suffering seems [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Thanksgiving

Gracious God, these days of special remembrance can so easily pass without my being attentive to the reasons behind them. Open my eyes and heart to the many graces and blessings that blanket my life with joy. Help my soul awaken with the gratitude that will make me attentive and expectant for the imprint of [...]

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Prayer for the Week: Computer Time

For all my cyber-savvy(!) friends and readers, who’ll spend much of your week behind a computer screen … Gracious God, even in the wondrous tangle of wires and connections, you make yourself known. May my computer be more than a machine of information and become an altar on which I am able to offer my [...]

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Song for the Weekend: Breathe Deep

Time for a (folk-driven) invitation to breathe. Really breathe! Any day with a Lost Dogs song is a better day …!

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