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A Journey through Lent
“Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace." Matt 6:6 (The MSG)
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Day Ninety One - The Sower at Sunset
Vincent van Gogh, Arles: November, 1888 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know...
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May 18, 20213 min read
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Day Eighty Four - In Spirit and Truth
Johannes Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring (Meisje met de parel) (Public Domain) Samaria - the woman at the well: John 4: 1-26 In her...
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May 11, 20212 min read
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Day Seventy - Visit of Nicodemus to Christ
John La Farge – 1880 – Oil on canvas – Smithsonian American Art Museum John La Farge was born in New York City in 1835, the son of...
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Apr 27, 20213 min read
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Day Sixty Three - O still, small voice of calm!
The film Atonement is a romantic war drama starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley. Based on Ian McEwan's novel of the same name, the...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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Day Fifty Six - Comfort blankets
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God, “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem. Tell her that her sad days are gone.” Isaiah 40:1 I can...
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Apr 13, 20212 min read
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Day Forty Nine - Antonio Vivaldi
Do you have many strings to your bow? Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor? I ask you this because today I am talking about a very impressive...
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Apr 6, 20212 min read
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Day Forty Two - The Agony in the Garden
The Agony in the Garden is a small painting by William Blake, completed as part of his 1799–1800 series of Bible illustrations...
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Mar 30, 20212 min read
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Day Thirty Five - Sing praise to God
"Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart." Ephesians 5:19...
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Mar 23, 20212 min read
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Day Twenty Eight - The posture of prayer
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) - Mary Magdalene It is quite interesting to watch people settle into prayer when I announce ‘let us...
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Mar 16, 20212 min read
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Day Twenty One - Look up
Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians...
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Mar 9, 20212 min read
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Day fourteen - There Was Jesus
It was good to hear the proposed roadmap out of Lockdown broadcast the other day, immediately followed by the Reading and Leeds Festival...
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Mar 2, 20213 min read
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