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Gonia Gleanings: May 2014
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Gleanings from my life. Wednesday, May 07, 2014. Sometimes the Most Horrible Thing Can Become the Most Grace-filled! This is adapted from my Easter Sermon. Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. Through the season of Lent,. My sermons focused on various persons who Encountered Jesus. And how their lives were changed because of him. While Judas betrayed Jesus. Both needed Jesus' forgiveness,. For s...
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Gonia Gleanings: Are Ashes a Public Statement of Faith?
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Gleanings from my life. Wednesday, March 05, 2014. Are Ashes a Public Statement of Faith? Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.". Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 (NRSV). But, when I thought the opening verse of this passage from Matthew, "Beware of pr...
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Gonia Gleanings: July 2013
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Gleanings from my life. Thursday, July 25, 2013. Clergy, Women, and Weight. Men are pigs.". That was my response to a male clergy person when he said, "I don't understand what happened. Christianity is an incarnational faith. We take the body seriously. I think that something changed once women went to seminary.". We were discussing issues related to clergy health including our higher than normal rate of obesity. I was so surprised by what he said, that I wanted to shock him back. For me, "men are pigs" ...
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Gonia Gleanings: Who Will Roll the Stone Away?
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Gleanings from my life. Sunday, April 05, 2015. Who Will Roll the Stone Away? When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, 'Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb? When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back.
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Gonia Gleanings: March 2014
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Gleanings from my life. Saturday, March 08, 2014. What has happened to pen and paper? Yesterday, I heard a piece on the radio. About the fact that Staples (the office supply store) is doing some downsizing. People just don't need as much ink and paper any more! Except for one thing, I had to type it! That took me another 15 hours! I remember thinking how much I wish I had a computer so that at that point, all I would have had to do was push the print button! What has happened to pen and paper? At first I...
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Gonia Gleanings: Sometimes the Most Horrible Thing Can Become the Most Grace-filled!
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Gleanings from my life. Wednesday, May 07, 2014. Sometimes the Most Horrible Thing Can Become the Most Grace-filled! This is adapted from my Easter Sermon. Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. Through the season of Lent,. My sermons focused on various persons who Encountered Jesus. And how their lives were changed because of him. While Judas betrayed Jesus. Both needed Jesus' forgiveness,. For s...
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Gonia Gleanings: December 2013
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Gleanings from my life. Tuesday, December 24, 2013. 8220; If I can just get through the next hour.”. Then, it's all downhill from there! If I can just get through this dinner with my in-laws. If I can just get through all this service. Just Get through it! Is that really how we want to think about our lives? Just getting through it? Susan Worthington, our Day School Director, and I had a conversation. Right before the Day School Christmas program a few weeks ago. And at the children all around us. Or per...
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Gonia Gleanings: March 2013
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Gleanings from my life. Saturday, March 23, 2013. Listen to the Promptings of the Spirit. I am a strong believer in the connectedness of life. We are all connected invisibly in a web of relationships. Sometimes we are more attuned to those connections and other times, we chose to ignore the reverberations of that web. Here is an illustration:. If I hadn't check my email and she hadn't checked hers, we would have missed each other! I'm not saying there is an actual voice, but a sense, a feeling-. But, for...
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Gonia Gleanings: Isn't this just sitting on a shelf in Duke's Library?
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Gleanings from my life. Saturday, May 03, 2014. Isn't this just sitting on a shelf in Duke's Library? Couldn't believe when I googled my name, I came across this! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. I am a United Methodist pastor currently serving in the local church. However, for fourteen years I worked for a nonprofit doing gleaning (yes, really- like from the Bible). As a result of that work, I am very interested in the connections between Faith and Food. Follow Me on Twitter.
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