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Topic: Call Waiting |
Margaret
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Forum: Open Forum Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:02 pm Subject: While we wait... |
I love your metaphor. How wonderful it is for us to know the shepherd who leads even though we do not necessarily know at any particular time where he is leading. How wonderful also to have the mind o ... |
Topic: Death to self - following the slain lamb |
Margaret
Replies: 0
Views: 10717
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Forum: Day 24: A Living Sacrifice Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:59 am Subject: Death to self - following the slain lamb |
Sacrificial death of self manifests itself in strange and unforeseen ways. As I prayed for a friend this morning I envisioned that person struggling with understanding and reconciling personal difficu ... |
Topic: What are we digging for? |
Margaret
Replies: 1
Views: 12526
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Forum: Day 5: Spring Up, O Well! Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:51 pm Subject: Creating thirst for those digging for water |
I just finished writing a mini commentary on the cultural and historical background for the parable of the teaching on the cost of discipleship from Luke 14:25-35. It is a project to go along with the ... |
Topic: Destiny |
Margaret
Replies: 1
Views: 13152
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Forum: Day 10: Lost and Found Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:44 am Subject: God reveals himself through the broken vessels he restores |
O can I ever relate to that! I was an only daughter among four brothers...and then became the black sheep of the family. I got so lost that the Lord himself came to find me and direct me apart from an ... |
Topic: Imagination and leadership |
Margaret
Replies: 1
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Forum: Day 16: While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:28 am Subject: Imagination or reality? |
Thanks for your reminder and definition regarding imagination. Having come from the 60's drug culture I tend to define imagination as the antithesis to reality. Yet living in God's reality is certainl ... |
Topic: Disfunctional harmony |
Margaret
Replies: 1
Views: 13902
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Forum: Day 8: The Shepherd Healer Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:03 am Subject: addendum to 'Harmony' |
This morning I was reminded that sometimes the places in our lives can be so overwhelming, so crushing, that all we can do is pluck at the 'notes' or bang away in frustration. Maybe even simply stare ... |
Topic: Home, stability, sinking sand |
Margaret
Replies: 0
Views: 10768
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Forum: Day 40: Home Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:16 pm Subject: Home, stability, sinking sand |
Home - to me that conjures up the idea of stability. We (my family) have not lived in the same house at any one period for more that four years since 1989. We've lived in three different houses since ... |
Topic: Wolves in "sheepskins" |
Margaret
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Views: 11315
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Forum: Day 17: Recognizing the Wolves Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:42 am Subject: Wolves in "sheepskins" |
R.C. Sproul's publication, Tabletalk, had an interesting reading for today. Apparently diplomas are often referred to as "sheepskins" because this is what they were originally printed on. Dr ... |
Topic: Following as the Lord Leads |
Margaret
Replies: 0
Views: 10729
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Forum: Day 29: Following the Leader Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:39 pm Subject: Following as the Lord Leads |
This chapter was a wonderful exhortation to each of us to employ all three methods of leading in our leadership. Jesus is our perfect example: sometimes leading us tenderly by our side, sometimes stra ... |
Topic: Warning: This book could be dangerous to your health |
Margaret
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Forum: Open Forum Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:24 pm Subject: Warning: This book could be dangerous to your health |
I was recently working on some background info in Luke 12:35-48, the parable of the coming of the Son of Man. Having just read the first chapter of While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks (for the third ti ... |
Topic: "Feed me, feed me" |
Margaret
Replies: 3
Views: 16736
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Forum: Day 7: Feed My Sheep Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:48 pm Subject: John 6:53-58 Hungry enough to chew on the 'hard sayings?' |
All this talk of what we ought to be feeding the flock and the fact that in so many 'seeker' churches the 'food' is easy to reach and partly digested, and the problem with getting people to reach for ... |
Topic: Questions |
Margaret
Replies: 1
Views: 13107
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Forum: Day 17: Recognizing the Wolves Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:29 pm Subject: Good point |
What a good point. It reminds me that even Peter was called 'Satan' when he mistepped his bounds with the Lord. I do think we are all capable of morphing at one time or another. Obviously we play the ... |
Topic: Disfunctional harmony |
Margaret
Replies: 1
Views: 13902
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Forum: Day 8: The Shepherd Healer Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:53 am Subject: Disfunctional harmony |
As I listened to my son working on a piece of music for classical guitar it occurred to me that our flocks, like our own lives, are similar to music. Like a complicated piece of music written specific ... |
Topic: Being a hospitable shepherd |
Margaret
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Views: 9747
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Forum: Day 6: Greener Pastures Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:04 pm Subject: Being a hospitable shepherd |
As a mother, daughter, wife I am encouraged and challenged by the idea of providing "greener pastures" and a safe non intimidating place for those who are under my charge and who look to me ... |
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