GRACE

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This week’s Upper Room Disciplines encourages creating an acrostic based on a meditation word about God’s Character. The word that came to me is GRACE.

Reflections on Beatitudes for all Time

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Crowds gathered from everywhere at “the level place” to be healed and cured. Jesus preached a powerful sermon of Beatitudes.

Fishers of Justice

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In Luke 5:1-11 Jesus recruits new disciples by showing them a miracle. But first he must get through their weary resignation.

Winter Haven: Invocation

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Creators gather across time zonesRetreating in virtual havensEchoes of ancestors swirl aroundFlashing through our core. What inspired our […]

A Tale of Two Calls – Journeys of Faith

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My dad and I share our stories of call
Where do we find God?
How does God find us?
In sacred moments of serenity.
In the tranquility of an instant.

Creators’ Haven: An Invocation

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A prayer for Cherry Island Creators’ Haven. (God, you are everywhere)

Pentecost Revival

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Revived from pandemic
People gather in one place
The Spirit violently disrupts
An amazed community erupts

The tapestry of humanity
Celebrates abundant life
No longer tense
It all makes sense

Moving with Divine flow
Complementary rhythms harmonize
As people of God begin to arise.

Sparks of fire
a descending dove
A revolution of Christ-like love.

Walk By Faith

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This prayer was inspired by a Father’s Day sermon my dad, Chris Hinnen preached on 6/15/97. He died on April 27, 2012

Salv(e)-ation

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Tight shoulders Heavy heart Shallow breath Weary body, mind, spirit  I hear Jesus whisper: Beloved child, Lean into […]

Epiphany

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Secrecy
Fear
Closed Doors
Power Plays
The clouds move out of the way
Shadows clear
The star shines brilliantly
on truth and love
Emanating not from above
but from God-with-us.
wisdom
treasure
majesty
A child born to lead the way
a voice to follow on a different road
beyond the end and into the promise
of a new beginning.