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Prayer The God who yearns & waits for us Heavenly Father, Guardian of the brokenhearted, Saviour of the crushed in spirit: We are strange conundrums of faithfulness and fickleness. We cleave to you in all the ways that we are able. We count on you and intend our lives to be lived for you, and then we find ourselves among your people who are always seeking elsewhere and otherwise. So we give thanks that you are the God who yearns and…

Regent Theological Seminary, just across the border, put out this meditation on Psalm 34 in their student chapel today which came via email: Scriptural Meditation Psalm 34 We encourage you to take some time today to contemplate Psalm 34 (or even just a portion of it). You could do this alone with the Lord, or perhaps you could have a time of communal lectio divina with your household or over Zoom with some friends. Here are the questions we’ve pondered in our lectio divina meditations over…

This is a repost of part of an article from the Cornwall Alliance.  It shows how our best intentions often have unintended consequences.  In this case our concern for protecting the environment may actually be exposing people to more illness. Reusable Grocery Bags Can Help Spread Corona Virus, Now Banned in New Hampshire The Cornwall Alliance has shared information for years about the dangers of reusable bags if you don’t wash them. This isn’t a new concept; here is an article in…

Great 25 minutes from Reformed Theological Seminary on some of the basics of Coronavirus and how the church should be responding. It is a dialogue with a reformed Christian who is the director of one of the Mayo clinics and also a student at RTS: Crisis, Christ, and Confidence Episode 1: Wisdom for the Church about Gathering In this first episode of “Crisis, Christ, and Confidence,” Dr. Poland joins Drs. David Garner and Peter Lillback to discuss the recent COVID-19…

Meditation on Covid 19 Denial of scary facts…it exists, it is unanticipated. It is overwhelming. It brings death and fear and loss and isolation. It attacks our vulnerable…and anyone. They say our defense to such a virus…stay isolated, alone, separated; be withdrawn, self-protected…selfish. But the related shutdown has consequences…costs, destruction of life-works, delayed learning skills, loss of commitments, broken agreements, lost/compromised values. Heartaches. From the past…a memory of a motivation. 4 Spiritual Laws – The Gospel. (We are) Created for…

Reformed Theological Seminary has done a great job putting this 30 minute conversation on fear amidst crisis and how Christ is our comfort in unsure times.  I highly recommend it:

“Human labor is not a commodity to be bought and sold. It is a vocation God gives us by which we preserve our families, participate in the common good, and produce sufficient resources so that we can act charitably toward our neighbors.”   Long, D. Stephen. Divine Economy: Theology and the market (London & New York: Routledge, 2000), p240

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RTS has given us a good thoughtful reflection on whether we are deists or Christians. This originally appeared at https://rts.edu/resources/what-is-a-reformed-deist/