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20 Ways to Follow Jesus in 2020
Following Jesus’ example in these ways could make 2020 your best year yet.
What’s So Amazing About Grace? (Book Review with Quotes)
Thank goodness grace abounds for everyone, without exception.
The Accessibility of God as Abba (Quote from Phillip Yancey)
How approachable is God? God is eager and available for an intimate, supportive relationship with you.
Born a Crime (Book Review)
This book is a tribute to the author’s remarkable mother, as well as to her unshakable faith in God.
To Be Born Again is Not to Become Someone Else (Thomas Merton Quote)
As we look for renewal and reawakening, this is important to remember.
Newspaper Article on Compassion by Polly Castor
Often the idea of compassion is mixed up with the words sympathy and pity. I would describe the difference this way.
We Have the Mind of Christ (Polly Preaching #3)
“What does it even mean to be prepared to ‘receive Christ?’ Christ is the perfect reflection of God, the complete effect of the one Cause, which we all intrinsically include. The Christ is not…
Celebrating God as Mother (quote by Jenny Morris)
‘Like the eagle that stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young, God spreads wings to catch you, and carries you on pinions.’ Deut. 32:11-12′
How to Resurrect (New Easter Poem by Polly Castor)
Resist hurt,
Refuse to be defeated,
Release blame,
Assuage guilt…
A Thousand Ways to Kill Him (Poem by Barbara Brown Taylor)
Today no one flees
without being laid bare by his light.
Denial of Material Selfhood and Taking Up the Cross
Christ Jesus once said to his disciples, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” How can we follow the Master except by…
Keep an Open Mind (Flannery O’Conner Quote)
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket…
Polly Preaching #2 (Distinction Between Jesus and the Christ)
Let this Christ be in you that was also in Jesus. Let this presence be palpable and practical in your everyday experience.
How to Hallow God’s Name (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Follow Jesus’ example,
by dwelling continually
and consciously
with divine Love…
My Adult Ministries Talk at the Congregational Church
It was a vibrant, open presentation and discussion. It was very well received, with several very touched by what they can do going forward to experience more healing by having a higher, God-sourced outlook.