July 27, 2008 Taken From: Ephesians 4:17-5:2; Romans 1:18-32 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel Counterpoised against the darkness, do we understand the immediacy of new life? Each of us a Lazarus without memory of the tomb, know ourselves as nothing different from anyone else except for encounter with the truth. Members of one another, sharing
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July 20, 2008 Taken From: Ephesians 4:17-5:21; Romans 1:16-32 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel Night is breathing close to me, a sensuous dark; within me the dark cave and a fire. The evangel comes, holding tight a candle, shielding the withering flame, crying out “Sleeper, awake! Stand up out of the dead ones!” The light
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July 13, 2008 Taken From: Romans 1:24-32 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel They have not imagined the weight of their sin: that it makes a knot in their hearts, cages the mind’s wings. Their trouble is only the trouble anyone, all of us, know: exchange the truth about God for a lie, live in a
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July 6, 2008 Taken From: Romans 1:16-23 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel Under his wrath I stand on common ground, breathe an ill wind. I get my daily bread in sweat as I move from one moment into the next, into the next. Knowing that God is and that he is powerful, the creator, I
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