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Why We Celebrate All Saint’s Day
I grew up in France, where All Saint’s day (“Toussaint”) is a national holiday celebrated mainly by a two-week vacation for schoolchildren. At the time I did not bother to wonder what the weeks of freedom commemorated, and it was only recently that I stopped to think about those early holidays in conjunction with the Church celebration I have come to love.I grew up in France, where All Saint’s day (“Toussaint”) is a national holiday celebrated mainly by a two-week vacation for schoolchildren. At the time I did not bother to wonder what the weeks of freedom commemorated, and it was only recently that I stopped to think about those early holidays in conjunction with the Church celebration I have come to ...Continue Reading
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God’s Work Through Our Fall Parish Mission
As our first annual Fall Parish Mission draws to a close, we are grateful and humbled by the ways we’ve seen God work in our church. Our prayer is that Resurrection will continue to grow as a church that lives an invitational life. Resurrection's own bluegrass band! The Fall Parish Mission began on September 13th with our Festival Day. This celebration wouldn’t have been ...Continue Reading
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Proverbs Devotional Day 21
“But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.” (9:18)When I was 20 years old, I found a drowned man washed up on a Florida beach. I later learned he’d jumped off the Key Biscayne Bridge the day before. Though I was not religious at the time, I remember perceiving that what I was seeing was not simply physical death, but spiritual death as well. It left a deep and lasting impression on me.
“But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.” (9:18) When I was 20 years old, I found a drowned man washed up on a Florida beach. I later learned he’d jumped off the Key Biscayne Bridge the day before. Though I was not religious at the time, I remember perceiving that what I was seeing was not simply physical death, but spiritual ...Continue Reading
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Proverbs Devotional Day 19 Part II
The connection of body and mind.I had an experience five years ago where my body began reacting to the fear in my mind. I was having full on anxiety attacks, the kind where your heart races, you can’t take deep breaths, and you feel like there is this raging river going through your body. I had been listening to the lies of fear for so long that my body couldn’t take it anymore and was finally breaking down.
The connection of body and mind. I had an experience five years ago where my body began reacting to the fear in my mind. I was having full on anxiety attacks, the kind where your heart races, you can’t take deep breaths, and you feel like there is this raging river going through your body. I had been listening to the lies of fear for so long that my body couldn’t take it ...Continue Reading
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Proverbs Devotional Day 19
“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22
We had been tent-bound for three days, and it looked like we’d be stuck for a fourth and possibly a fifth. Everything was wet- the precipitation had not stopped for more that seventy continuous hours. The ripstop nylon of our tent flapped constantly in the tempest- we regularly had to brace the tent with our bodies to prevent the poles from snapping in the strong mountain gusts. Sleep was interrupted several times an hour for this reason, as was all conversation and any attempt at cooking what was left of our dwindling food supply. To add to the situation, it was the end of almost 80 days spent together in the backcountry. We were ready to go home, but couldn’t. It should have been a depressing, claustrophobic, and maddening few days.
“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 We had been tent-bound for three days, and it looked like we’d be stuck for a fourth and possibly a fifth. Everything was wet- the precipitation had not stopped for more that seventy continuous hours. The ripstop nylon of our tent flapped constantly in the tempest- we regularly had to ...Continue Reading
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