Church-of-Christ

appointed prayer

week of October 5

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon your church the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

featured

something to laugh about

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Anna, Isaac, and Haley the Christmas dog Solomon tells us that “a happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing” (Proverbs 17:22, AMP ). God undoubtedly has a sense of humor; we need only look at some of the animals He created (it’s hard not to smile at the sight of a hippo, a monkey, or a puppy). Or think of some of the married couples you know: don’t you think God was smiling at the wedding as He looked ahead to the interaction of the wildly different personalities that will be living together?

And as if often the case, medical science is proving the wisdom of Solomon’s Spirit-inspired words.

Posts Tagged ‘Church-of-Christ’

Ash Wednesday

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 · living the life, reading · no responses · comments closed

Growing up in the Church of Christ, Easter was nothing more than an opportunity for candy and perhaps some new clothes. We took communion every Sunday and talked about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ regularly, so Easter was not treated as different from any other Sunday of the year…

more from Ratzinger

Monday, February 6, 2006 · meditations, reading · no responses · comments closed

I’ve finished reading the first sermon in Ratzinger’s God Is Near Us, and it’s filled with powerful ideas and statements. This sermon is titled “God with Us and God among Us,” and for it Ratzinger takes as his starting point this sentence from the Nicene Creed:

By the power of the Holy Spirit…

Charis