My earliest memory of facing an environmental issue is from my 5th or 6th grade year. My mom had moved to Las Cruces, NM with my step-dad. Las Cruces was a thirty minute drive from El Paso, TX which sat across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico. When I visited my mom (I was living [...]
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Learning to Pray From Jesus #1
45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” [ee'ly-ee'ly-lah'muh-suh-bahk'thuh-nee] (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). 47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s [...]
Psalms of Hate
As part of our congregation’s journey through the Bible in 2008, we’ve encountered what might be called a “Psalm of Hate.” It’s Psalm 3: “Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.” It’s only the first of many. They are called Imprecatory Psalms. There are over twenty of them (depending [...]
Psalm of the Day
A Psalm I prayed through today is Ps. 112. It is a Psalm of Orientation–one of the Psalms which addresses the routine, ordinary, and day-to-day aspects of life. This particular Psalm focuses on Wisdom–celebrating the way in which God has created a world that seems to function in such a wise way. The specific wisdom the [...]
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