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August 31, 2008 Taken From: Romans 2:6-11 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel It comes, that day we never thought would come; a numb thunder proclaims the startling brevity of things, a divide opens; wrath and mercy tribulation and peace damnation and glory. Works reveal something of who I am, condemn or confirm my being. I

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August 24, 2008 Taken From: Romans 2:1-11 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel Drink truth too fast, it burns all the way down, best taken in small sips like the finest wine. The gospel is subversive, brings the sound and sense of the immense, eyes smarting with the tang of mystery. Lean into the words, taste

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August 17, 2008 Taken From: Romans 2 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel I am responsible for large things in a small place. I am here to blow on coals glowing toward cool. I travel with others, breath by dusty breath, toward a different place. Sometimes we breathe unheeding, blessings taken for granted. We fail to

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August 10, 2008 Taken From: Ephesians 5:15-21; Romans 1:18-32 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel What I love to ask is what I know, old thoughts that feel like a well-worn boot, the things inside me that make me who I am. What should life look like when I live being filled with the Spirit? Are

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August 3, 2008 Taken From: Ephesians 4:32–5:20; Romans 1:18-32 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel His love summons us to an understanding seen only when light enters from without. A truth as inscrutable as its reflection, something unknown to memory, walls the soul with thought; makes us eager to hear; to replenish our thirst at the

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