Dear Friends: O Lord, God of my salvation, when, at night, I cry out in your presence, let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. Psalm 88:1-3 I stop and look back down […]
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A Word of Grace – April 16, 2012
Dear Friends: On a Monday morning, facing the steep climb of the work week ahead, I take grace from wherever I can find it. I find grace this particular morning in an observation of Patty, my fitness trainer. She meets me twice a week at the physical therapy clinic and attempts the difficult task of […]
A Word of Grace – April 9, 2012
Dear Friends: If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those who have also died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. (1 Cor 15:17-18). I grew up where […]
Words of Grace on Holy Thursday
Because I’ve been busy over the last several weeks working on other projects (a print newsletter, The C.S. Lewis Retreat at Camp Allen, C.S. Lewis College, The Scholars In Residence Program, among others), I put our Word of Grace posts from Kent Hansen on hiatus. Starting next week, I’ll be posting them again weekly. Here […]
A Word of Grace – February 13, 2012
Dear Friends: This is the sixth and last of a series of messages on the Book of Haggai. The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month: Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth, and to […]