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Showing posts with label 36.Prayer.Divine.Communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 36.Prayer.Divine.Communication. Show all posts
2023-11-09

Wrestling with God across Scripture and Life

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Do you feel like you are wrestling with God through the trials and tribulations of life? You are not alone.  Following God and being guided ...
2023-08-18

On Miracles that seem “trivial”

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Every now and then we come across stories of religiously significant events that do not seem to be adequately explained by natural laws, but...
2022-05-26

Where should we pray?

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With all the troubling news that happens on a regular basis, we are inundated with people telling us they are offering their “thoughts and p...
2022-03-06

A Personal Relationship with Jesus?

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Recently a good friend of mine asked me a great question. He is a person of considerable spiritual depth and commitment to Christ, yet he ha...
2021-04-16

A Prayer for Uncertainty

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A poem and a prayer for those facing an uncertain future and trying to find the way forward. Let us pray:
2021-01-13

Theology and Compassion, Objectivity and Subjectivity

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One of the pastoral and practical tools I use to evaluate theology— besides whether it is Biblical and Creedal and rooted in the Trinity and...
2021-01-04

A Prayer for Teachers in Spring 2021

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I prayed this for our faculty and staff this morning, and I pray it for all teachers going back into this semester as well: Lord of Love, Go...
2020-12-31

Glimpses of the Sacred

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Where is holiness to be found? Where are the thin places The fjords between This shore and that Great Beyond? Where is the fabric of reality...

My First Dark Night of the Soul

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The year 2020 has been a Dark Night for so many people in many ways: Material, Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, Social. Since it is coming to a...
2020-03-16

Prayer Resources for COVID19

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The following is the text of an email I sent out to the faculty, staff, and families of my school community. I post this as a resource to...
2020-02-18

Sacred Ideas within Secular Idioms

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As a school chaplain I am blessed to live and work with people from all faith backgrounds, and those who claim no religious faith at all....

A Universal Invocation

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LORD of Love Source of All Worlds Known by many Names Flow through us Now and evermore Think through our minds Feel through our hearts...
2019-09-16

Live Wire

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All of them were taken into ecstasy and they glorified God. Indeed they were awestruck and kept saying “we have seen strange signs today!...
2016-12-19

Modes of Prayer in the Spiritual Life

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I am working on a teaching about modes of prayer in the spiritual life. I'm trying to come up with a way to help people find the ...
2015-11-14

What good does it do to #prayforparis?

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Tonight, as the media was broadcasting the terrible news of today's terror attacks in Paris, one of my students emailed me this quest...
2014-01-04

The Most Common Objection to Prayer

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There are several objections to prayer. I read them all the time on blogs, websites, and comments sections. I hear them from students and...
2013-08-16

What does prayer do?

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This is a theological meditation on something that I have been pondering for a while now: How can we conceive of prayer working if we ope...
2009-11-07

Trust Jesus to Touch You

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A Sermon for Year B, Proper 9. Based on Mark 6:1-13 By Nathan L. Bostian Now, I do not know about you, but if I walked into a hospita...
2008-04-06

PRACTICING CHRIST WITH THE EARLY CHURCH

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A Sermon For Year A, Third Easter Copyright © 2008 Nathan L. Bostian Based on Acts 2:14a,36-47; John 21:1-14 MY FAVORITE RANDOM FACT...
2007-12-09

FINDING YOUR STORY IN HIS STORY

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A Sermon For Year A, Second Advent Copyright © 2007 Nathan L. Bostian Isa. 11:1-10; Rom. 15:4-13; Mat. 3:1-12; Psa. 72 With special...