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thanksgiving or angst-giving?

Started by markvans · 10 months ago

This will be my only post for this week. Amy and I are borrowing a friend’s car and driving up to visit family from Wednesday to Saturday. Along the way, we’re visiting our friend Michael, who is in a correctional facility in St. Cloud. In a recent phone conversation%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • I like the idea of bringing lamentation back into our worship experience. I'm not familiar with the liturgical tradition and/or prayer hours...do you know if there is much time given to lament and grief?

    I like your post overall. I would like to challenge one statement though: "Yet those who cry out in the church today are more likely to be accused of sinning than they are of worshiping." My experience is that churches give people freedom to express grief, but not to express anger.
  • Good stuff.

    Don't forget to pray for Chris Stewart.

    http://www.citypages.com/databank/27/1355/artic...

    dlw
  • BTW, what nifty Wordpress plugin are you using to get that equation-answering spam filter?
  • It is called "Did You Pass Math?"
  • dlw, thanks for the link to that City Pages article. I hadn't heard anything about it until now.
  • Amen.

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