The Lord turned and looked at Peter. — Luke 22:61. Luke’s vision of the passion of Christ describes in detail Peter’s three denials. Perhaps his description is so vivid because Luke heard Peter tell the story in person. What Luke fails to tell us is what type of look it was. Was it a look of…

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There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth distress among the nations confused by the the roaring of the seas and the waves. — Luke 21:25 It seems that every time we elect a new President there is this hue and cry that, “the end of the world is…

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The place God calls you is is to the place where your deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner. This morning during my meditation I focused on where is the place where God calls me. Buechner tries to give us a roadmap. Neither Google Maps nor does the “woman who must be obeyed”…

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Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of mankind.  — John Wesley In churches across the country discussions go on all the time…

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“An assurance of safety and a temper of peace, and, in relation to others, a preponderance of loving affections.” — William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture XX. Followers of The Hubbell Pew know that I sometimes run across a phrase that I find fascinating and produces a flow of thought. Such was my feeling when I…

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