Create in God’s Likeness
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’…So God created man in his own image; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26-27 Consumption is a…
Tag: Spiritual Practice
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Leave your burden at the well
The January doldrums are particularly plentiful this year, and the soup of anxiety bubbles furiously on the front burner. The voices of…
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Home on the Range
When I was in Junior High School, my parents gave me a gift: a week at “Rolling Y” camp in southern Ohio. It was a camp that was filled with…
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Throw Away Days
Sunday Feb. 10, 2013 started out as one of those days. Carolyn and I had been quarreling/fighting for a couple of days and our differences had crept into this particular…
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The Transforming Practice of Gratitude
One of my favorite prayers is this one from the Vespers service (ELW p.317). “O God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by…
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What are your plans for 2016?
Each fall we encourage all Trinity members to consider how God is calling them to serve in our church in the coming year. In order to make a ministry plan…
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Praying for a Servant’s Heart
Every day, in some form or fashion, the Holy Spirit helps me pray, “God use me as a vessel so that I may be in service to you and one…
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Grace… Not Gas Prices!
I know… the title of this blog post probably has you scratching your head and wondering how in the world Intern Jennifer can include a word like “Grace” that comes…
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The Solace of a Labyrinth
This past summer wildfires surrounded Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Like many other folks who at one time or another had been…