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March 2019

Meditation

Be reconciled to God

Read 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. We entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20b) Our Lord said “I am the light of the world.” This light travels the land with the speed of, well, light, and it does not return before it illumines. This light draws Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 2 years1 year ago
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A dry and weary land

Psalm 63:1-8. My flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water (Psalm 63:1b). Where is that dry and weary land where there is no water? Where is that land of emptiness and of solitude? Where is that land of thirst and of Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 2 years2 years ago
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Enemies of the cross of Christ

Read Philippians 3:17-4:1. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ (Philippians 3:18a) Enemies in the church! Idolators! Many of them! They worship their bellies or their treasures or their pleasures or their honor. Their mind is on earthly things and they are bound for destruction. They are Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 2 years2 years ago
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Tauler — Sermon for Ash Wednesday

I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. (Galatians 2:20) This searching and compelling sermon is a meditation on the three crosses of Golgatha, taken as a figure of three types of Christians. Tauler—Sermon for Ash Wednesday

By Harry Plantinga, 2 years2 years ago
Meditation

True humility

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:29-30) Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 2 years2 years ago
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Led by the Spirit

Read Luke 4:1-13. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. (Luke 4:1) I have long found the particular temptations Jesus went through in the wilderness in preparation for his ministry to be puzzling and difficult to empathize with. Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 2 years11 months ago
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