Pope Francis made headlines all week long during his pastoral visit to the United States, but it’s one of the things he said early on that sticks with me as an enduring blessing.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Boast-buster
I made a spectacle of myself last evening.
Well, all day yesterday actually…but it was the evening shift that I found most discomfiting.
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Tags: Appalachian Trail, Boast, Discipleship, Gospel of Mark, Great Smoky Mountains, Smokies, T-Shirts
Today’s find: Beckoning
Another season of the Golf League drew to a close this week, and as I drove away from our home course for the final time in 2015, I realized that my heart was full of joy.
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Tags: Aberdeen Golf Club, four-putt, Golf League, Psalm 16, Widsom 119
Today’s find: Radiance
You might say the church basement has seen its better days…especially the space next to the fellowship hall where we’ve had our Kairos team meetings for the past several years.
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Tags: Ancient of Days, Kairos Prison Ministry, Letter of James, Lord of the Cosmos, Radiance
Today’s find: Probed
It tends to make me squirm just a bit whenever I encounter this line from Psalm 139:
‘O LORD, you have probed me and you know me.’
Today’s find: Splendid & Stark
It’s been a study in contrasts, to say the least.
Friday evening, I spent immersed in breathtaking beauty. Saturday noon, I stepped into a world distinguished by scallops of razor wire.
Today’s find: Deliverance
I’m thinking maybe I should quit while I’m ahead.
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Tags: Bread of Life, Deliverance, Ephesians, Exodus, Golf League, Links to LaSalle, Manna
Today’s find: Cavity
I fully expected a measure of pain today, but it never materialized.
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Tags: Cavity, Dentist, Exodus, Fear, Tooth filling
Today’s find: Magdalene
The more you look into Mary Magdalene’s story, the more you realize that she really got it right.
‘It’ being ‘Christian discipleship.’
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Today’s find: Dazzled
‘Shut up,’ I explained.
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Tags: Cana, Father of the Bride, Marriage, Sirach, Wedding feast
With Us Still 