The Shepherdess Writes
Pentecost Year B Ezekiel 37:1-14 Acts 2:1-21 John 15:26-27; 16:4-15 The Valley of the Dry Bones. Valley of the Dead. Remember that children’s song? Them bones them bones them dry bones this must be the workin of the Lord. Ezekiel, the prophet who inspired that children’s song, was sent by God to the people of [...]
Pentecost 18A Matthew 22:15-22 One of the few evenings I spent as an on call chaplain at the hospital in Columbia, SC, I received a page to go to the psychiatric ward at around 11pm. Honestly, I liked going to the psychiatric ward. The people there never bothered to sugar coat what they were thinking [...]
I came upon this post quite by accident this morning while looking for something else entirely and I found something about it to be quite profound. This line in particular “And perhaps mercy and creation aren’t really that different.” There’s some really good stuff there about mercy and what we Lutherans might call grace. It is well [...]
The doctrine of the Trinity is a doctrine that provides us with a road map of how we can speak about God. It comes from scripture and its identification of the God in whom we believe is directly from the Apostolic witness found in the biblical narrative. In a world full of false deities that [...]
May 26, 2012
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