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Waiting for the Resurrection
“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they seem
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The Agony in the Garden – The Place of Transformation
“There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.” That cryptic phrase from Leo Tolstoy can serve as a key
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The Agony in the Garden – The Place to Ready Ourselves for Ordeals
Luke’s account of Gethsemane says this of Jesus:”And being in a certain agony (AGONIA), he prayed more earnestly.” This word, AGONIA, doesn’t just describe the intensity of Jesus’ suffering, but
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The Agony in the Garden – A Place of Prayer
Poet Theodore Roetke once wrote: “In a dark time, the edge is what we have.” In a dark time we also have prayer. In the Garden of Gethsemane, as he
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The Agony in the Garden – The Place Where Angels Strengthen Us
In a book soon to be released, Trevor Herriot writes: “Only after we have let the desert do its full work in us will angels finally come and minister to
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The Agony in the Garden – The Place to Stay Awake
As Jesus and his disciples enter the Garden of Gethsemane, he tells them: “Stay awake, watch!” The implication is that they’re about to learn something, a lesson is to be
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The Agony in the Garden – The Place Where You Suffer as a Lover
We tend to misunderstand “the passion of Jesus.” Spontaneously we think of it as the pain of the physical sufferings he endured on the road to his death. Partly that
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The Agony in the Garden – The Special Place of Loneliness
We tend to misunderstand “the passion of Jesus”. Spontaneously we think of it as the pain of the physical sufferings he endured on the road to his death. Partly that
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Romantic Imagination with Religion
There are many reasons why our churches are greying and emptying. Conservatives attribute it to the intoxicating power of secularity, to a pampered culture that has lost its sense of
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The Law of Karma
Faith and instinct both give us a sense of what Hindus and Buddhists call the law of karma. Simply put, we have a gut-feeling that our actions, good and bad,