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LENTEN DEVOTIONALS

As part of our Lenten journey, we will be posting reflections, prayers, and disciplines and practices from a variety of sources. Click on the links below as we journey together to Easter.

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Welcome to Musings! As participants in the conversations on this blog, we covenant together that we will maintain a spirit of good will, of openness to each other, and of mutual respect in our discussions; that we will listen to each other and endeavor to understand each other, especially those whose views differ from ours; and that we will remember that we are brothers and sisters in Christ.

Why Musings?

  • The Musings Page will be a place to consider thought-provoking, evocative, sometimes polemical but not overtly political, writings, quotes, ideas, and poetry on the Christian life in all its facets: spiritual, religious, ethical, and practical.

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Touching the Deep Places

The tamed piety of the conventional church wants an innocent baby who comes gently into our secure lives and keeps everything benign and friendly.  It may be conventional and it may be tame, but it is not biblical and it is not Christian.  Advent is about both hope and hurt; pain and risk, as well as excitement and joy, are part of the adventure.   Christ comes touching those deep places our culture too quickly covers over with glitzy wrapping paper and “Frosty, the Snowman.”

Kyle Childress quoted in Sacred Seasons: Advent/Christmas 2011 by Seeds of Hope Publishers


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