How do you describe God?
What are the characteristics of God that come first to your mind?
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How do you describe God?
What are the characteristics of God that come first to your mind?
What we do and how we live matters. It matters to God. It matters to all those who share in the effects or consequences of what we do.
Today’s reading — Psalm 51 — is attributed in this way: “A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.”As the lump of clay spins on the wheel, it responds immediately to the slightest movements of the hands of the potter. It is fascinating to watch.
My mother didn’t have electricity until sometime after my parents married — neither in the home she grew up in nor the first house my parents had. Once she had electricity, for the rest of her life she always had a night light in her room.
As the lump of clay spins on the wheel, it responds immediately to the slightest movements of the hands of the potter. It is fascinating to watch.
Have you ever watched a potter throwing pottery?
As the lump of clay spins on the wheel, it responds immediately to the slightest movements of the hands of the potter. It is fascinating to watch.
The ancient psalmist advised, “When you are disturbed (this can be translated as angry), do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent.”
In the affirmation of faith we use most Sundays in worship, we say, “We believe in God, who has created and is creating.”
When the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, freedom must have seemed an impossibility. The sea was an insurmountable obstacle, and yet God made a way for them to pass through it and move forward.
Remember that Paul’s letter to Galatians is written to a Christian community to remind them of their duty as followers of Jesus to bear one another’s burdens.
When I was ordained, the bishop read this passage of scripture to us, reminding us of the responsibility of our calling to “tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it — not for sordid gain but eagerly.”
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)
