God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He
does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
- Max Lucado
(Consider a struggle you have at this time and commend it to God’s care. Pray the grace to see and understand this situation as God sees it.)
Christianity and Reincarnation by Philip St.
Romain, M.S., D. Min.
July 28, 2016
7:00 p.m. C.D.T.
Can a Christian believe in reincarnation? This webinar will review evidence for and against reincarnation, history of Christian beliefs on this topic, and differences between Christian and Eastern views of liberation.
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Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19; Ps 102:13-21; Mt 11:28-30
R. From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
You, O LORD, abide forever,
and your name
through all generations.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion,
for it is time to pity her.
For her stones are dear to your servants,
and her dust moves them to pity.
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
When the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised
their prayer.
Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
"The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die."
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek
and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves.”
Jesus’ offer of rest is enticing. Our world — up and running 24/7 — leaves many of us exhausted and feeling off-balance. What would our lives look like if we took Jesus’ yoke upon us and became like him, meek and humble? Would we get off the fast track and devote some time instead to serving others?
Would we incorporate more prayer, solitude and rest into our days? As we became less stressed, would we become more kind? Would we live more simply? Let us pray about all of the possibilities of this lovely invitation.
“For balanced, holy lives centered in Christ, we pray.”
- from preacherexchange.com
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Ninth Revelation, Chapter 22
“The Love that made Him to suffer passeth so far all
His Pains as Heaven is above Earth”
For the first Heaven, Christ shewed me His Father; in no bodily likeness, but in His property and in His working. That is to say, I saw in Christ that the Father is. The working of the Father is this, that He giveth meed to His Son Jesus Christ. This gift and this meed is so blissful to Jesus
that His Father might have given Him no meed that might have pleased Him better. The first heaven, that is the pleasing of the Father, shewed to me as one heaven; and it was full blissful: for He is full pleased with all the deeds that Jesus hath done about our salvation. Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that
we be His crown!) This that I say is so great bliss to Jesus that He setteth at nought all His travail, and His hard Passion, and His cruel and shameful death.
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