Archive for March, 2005
Clean It ALL Out
Late winter always finds me out raking and cleaning up some accumulated debris of the long, dark winter. Leaves piled behind bushes, scraps of fast-food wraps and cups, paper that has blown out of the trash can, tufts of pillow filling, a piece of old shoe that “The [Chocolate] Duke,” (the canine relative of our […]
Published by AP on March 30th, 2005 tagged Preaching, Spiritual Formation | 1 Comment »
Thank You, Mr. Warnock
Mr. Adrian Warnock of the UK, I’d like to say a big thank you for your comments on Michael and Terri Schiavo.
You have courage. Your statement that, “None of us should dare think that Michael has sunk to a level of ‘vileness’ to which we ourselves have not sunk” brings conviction to my own […]
Published by AP on March 27th, 2005 tagged America | Comment now »
Happy Resurrection Day!
Here’s a prayer to wish you all a day of resurrection and new life! May you find a new peace, an old rival reconciled, an inner wound healed, a conflict resolved, in other words - New Life!
May you know that your sins are forgiven and experience peace that cannot be described. May you establish, or […]
Published by AP on March 27th, 2005 tagged Prayer | 1 Comment »
Your Expectations or Mine?
I’m working on a paper. It’s about meeting expectations, spoken or silent, explicit or implicit, defined or assumed. We all face these everyday. In our marriage. On our jobs. In our christian journey.
My theory is - work as hard as you can to get the non-verbal, assumed, implied expecations out in the open. Then you […]
Published by AP on March 26th, 2005 tagged Integrity, Healthy Living | Comment now »
The Road Less Traveled
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
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Published by AP on March 22nd, 2005 tagged Poetry | Comment now »
A Prayer for Shaving
Lord, could you get the phone? Everyone else is upstairs and I just got my face all lathered up.
Oh, OK I guess I can get it, just let me wipe a bit off this ear…
Lord, that was F________. She said that J________ got released from the hospital last night. Is she going to try to […]
Published by AP on March 22nd, 2005 tagged Preaching, Prayer | Comment now »
The Purvis Brothers
The Purvis Brothers from Mississippi at a recent event in Grove City, PA
Photos
Published by AP on March 21st, 2005 tagged Photos | Comment now »
The Passionate Lamb
My sermon this weekend was not written by me. In fact, it was written and preached by Pastor Edward F. Markquart, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church since l973. This congregation is one of the largest worshipping congregations on the West coast. He shares his sermons freely…click here to see his website.
Palm/Passion Sunday […]
Published by AP on March 19th, 2005 tagged Preaching | Comment now »
2nd Verse to “He Looked Beyond My Fault”
When I was lost in sin
and filled with hopelessness
The Shepherd left the fold
To seek for me.
He gave his life to free
Me from my chains of sin
He looked beyond my fault
And saw my need.
dottie rambo, He looked beyond my fault, linda owen, lyrics, music
Published by AP on March 19th, 2005 tagged Music, Lyrics | 2 Comments »
Story Behind the Song
He Looked Beyond My Fault
Dottie Rambo’s “He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need” By Linda Owen
“Amazing Grace,” shall always
be my song of praise
For it was grace that
brought me liberty
I do not know just why
He came to love me so
He looked beyond my fault
and saw my need.
I shall forever
lift mine eyes to Calvary
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