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Wounded for Whom?
A Meditation for Good Friday 2008
In reflecting on the lectionary texts for Good
Friday, Isaiah 53:5,6 demanded my attention. I am
struck by the power of Jesus being wounded for
me, for you, for us. A single word in this text
jumped out at me - the word iniquity. Iniquity
means "gross injustice; wickedness; sin."
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 20, 2008
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Where Will Our Help Come From?
Lent 2008
I live in a place that knows how to ask the
question: "Where will our help come from?"
The voice that sings the 121st song is not
foreign to Palestine or to Palestinians. Living
here, working and speaking each day with
Palestinian Christians, I hear in almost ever
word the question: "Where will our help come
from?"
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 19, 2008
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Feasting Upon Bread and God's Grace
Maundy Thursday 2008
I can't recall now who said it; it started out as
a joke. My Young Adult Missionary class had just
gotten out of a communion service during our
training last summer. We were eating the leftover
bread, and someone had joked about how tasty the
grace of God was – warm and chewy, perfectly
accompanied by a few drops of grape juice.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 19, 2008
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Seeing Jesus' Face
Watching the movie ‘Prestige,’ a film about two
rival stage magicians trying to outdo each other
perfect the ‘disappearing’ act, reminds me of the
walk to Emmaus. In that account, which followed
sometime immediately after Jesus’ resurrection,
Jesus disappeared in front of two disciples after
breaking the bread they were about to eat after
the day’s journey.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 19, 2008
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Seeing with New Eyes
For over 20 years, my job required my family to
move about every three or four years. Each move
would take us somewhere new and
exciting. As "outsiders", we would see our
surroundings with fresh, new eyes. In the
beginning, we would be anxious to take advantage
of our "newness", visiting all of local tourist
attractions, the beaches, the museums and the
zoos. After a period of time, we would settle
into the everyday routine of life and would tire
of site seeing. I often think of how many
wonderful sites we missed simply because we
became complacent.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 10, 2008
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'Faith...Just a Little Faith'
A few years ago a movie came out called The Sixth
Sense. I never saw the movie but we all know the
catch line "I see dead people." That alone was
enough to make me decide that I didn't want to
see the picture, it just seemed morbid. As I read
the Scriptures for today this phrase kept coming
back to me..."I see dead people."
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 10, 2008
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'God Can'
As we move in this third week of Lent we discover
a theme around thirst. The Israelites wonder as
they wandered in the wilderness in desperation
for fear they wouldn’t have nourishment and would
die of thirst. The woman at the well, a Samaritan
woman at that, is in conversation with Jesus who
is physically thirsty and he offers streams of
water that will lead to eternal life so they will
never be thirsty again. In Romans, we are
reminded that we have the love of God which has
been poured into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Feb 21, 2008
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Christ on Earth
Lent 2008
In the context of Lent, we are called to look at
where Christ is, was, and will be in our world.
In Psalm 121 and Genesis 12 we are called to
remember the very physical nature of our Judaic-
Christian experience with God. Lift thine eyes to
the hills, not past reality into a different
realm. The Lord is right here, in the mountains
of our lives. The Lord is aware of our struggles
as we climb through life and will not let us
stumble or lose our way.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Feb 12, 2008
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'I Am Not Alone'
Lent 2008
As a deaconess candidate, I consider myself to be
a lifelong learner in theology and the ways of
The United Methodist Church. In fact, I just
recently completed the Old Testament and New
Testament courses this winter and walked away
from that experience understanding why people
refer to the Bible as "the living word."
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Mission Personnel
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South Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Feb 10, 2008
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All of Nature Fasts and Prays
Ash Wednesday, 2008
At Turtle Rock Farm we are committed to learning
from and being healed by God's good creation. As
we enter a period of the church year when we
dedicate ourselves to fasting-and-prayer, we find
it imperative to notice what's happening in
creation.
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Mission Personnel
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South Central U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Feb 05, 2008
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Global Song: Making Black History Month a Musical Celebration
As you consider ways to celebrate Black History
Month in your worship services, explore the rich
diversity of hymnody and song that has been born
out of the African American experience. The
collection, Beams of Heaven, 46 hymns of Charles
Tindley, is a treasure to share with your
congregation as a part of Black History Month.
Churches who want to offer solos or duets may
consider some of the spirituals found in Steal
Away to Jesus.
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Evangelization and Church Growth
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Date posted: Jan 15, 2008
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Giving Thanks for Enduring Love
After reading these passages, the verse that
captured my attention was from Psalm 118:
O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his steadfast love endures for ever! (Psalm 118:1)
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Apr 05, 2007
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Sitting at the Foot of the Cross
Good Friday commemorates history’s most famous
public execution. It is a day of deception,
death, and destruction. On this day we take
solace from the words of Psalm 22 as some believe
Jesus did while dying on the cross. In spite of
our repulsion at this cruel method of torture and
death, we cling to the cross.
My clinging to the cross was recently called into
question.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Apr 05, 2007
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The Calm Before The Storm
It had been a hard week for Jesus and the
disciples. Jesus had done his best to make his
closest disciples understand what was about to
occur as they journeyed together to Jerusalem.
Again he rebuked the Pharisees, who continued to
think that “keeping the law” was so important.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Apr 01, 2007
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Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday Bible Texts
We offer you two texts from Luke (New Revised
Standard Version) to consider on This special
sunday.
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GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Mar 30, 2007
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Memories of the Role of Women in Lenten Services
When I was a little girl back in the early 50’s,
I really didn’t know much about the season of
Lent. However, I did know about Good Friday. We
had the day off from school, and Dad didn’t have
to go to work. When Mom woke us up, there weren’t
any of the normal morning smells of coffee
brewing or breakfast being prepared about the
house. Instead, Dad was gathering his yard tools
and Mom was getting groceries, bedding, and
clothing together. We were preparing to go to our
church, which was approximately 12 miles from
where we lived.
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GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Mar 30, 2007
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Business Is No Longer the Same as Usual
As I reflect on my life, I ask how I got to this
point. It is clear to me that business is no
longer the same as usual. I am a born-again
Christian who has been on this faith journey
since October 1996 after a divorce and a
miscarriage. I knew I could not continue on the
same path that I was on. There was no peace in my
life and I desired to have peace.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 27, 2007
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God’s Lavish Love
One of the themes for this week is God’s lavish
love: a constant, persistent, and inexhaustible
love that desires, searches, and joyously
celebrates our return whenever we have strayed
or
wandered away. During our times of being lost,
the knowledge that this abundant love is seeking
us and ready to welcome us back can be a great
source of comfort and hope.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 16, 2007
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Finding Grace
We understand that the grace of God is an
undeserved gift. Isaiah presents it to us
directly--in a simple way that makes it
completely clear to us.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Mar 06, 2007
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Standing Firm in the Lord
The first week of January is notorious for
football games and championships. During the 2007
mission team orientation, I thought I had
prepared my team to understand our mission was to
rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in
Biloxi, Mississippi. I was leading a team of 30
volunteers. In the past, I had led small mission
groups of 10 to 12 members.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Feb 27, 2007
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Love and Forgiveness
I miss being a kid, when I was being fed and
clothed by my parents and older siblings and life
seemed to be so satisfying. On the other hand, I
am happy to be a grown-up. Our world needs grown-
ups who can make a difference in other people’s
lives.
Source:
Mission Personnel
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South Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Feb 23, 2007
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'Return to Me With All Your Heart'
Ash Wednesday, 2007
My grandmother died in Franklin, North Carolina,
on Ash Wednesday 1979. Each year, as Lent
approaches, I remember her life, her death, and
the disposition of her ashes.
Source:
GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Feb 20, 2007
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Missionary Minute: Easter Day
April 16, 2006
In Luke 15, Jesus tells a familiar
parable: “Which one of you, having a hundred
sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the
ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the
one that is lost until he finds it? When he has
found it, he lays it on his shoulders and
rejoices.”
Source:
Advance
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Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: Apr 16, 2006
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Sacred and Imperishable
When I look at the recollection of the events
around the resurrection of Jesus in Mark 16, I am
aware all evidence says that the gospel
originally ended with verse 8. The remaining
verses were someone’s effort to add important
stories from the other gospels and a few
questionable views from elsewhere to “complete” a
gospel that some, at least, felt was too open
ended.
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Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Apr 15, 2006
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A Man Died 2000 Years Ago on a Wooden Cross
A man died 2000 years ago on a wooden cross. He
was condemned as a criminal but to this day
millions honor the man crucified and cherish the
crucifixion. ... Every Good Friday and throughout
the year, thousands of followers of Christ
retrace the path through which he carried his
cross.
Source:
Mission Personnel
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Date posted: Apr 14, 2006
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