Opening Address Redeeming the time — Paul’s instruction for exactly the kind of days that don’t make it easy, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out […]
Author Archives: Pastora Tori Matthews
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Chosen you out of the world — that’s the reason Christ gives his apostles for why the world will hate them, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Your son lives — four words spoken from a distance, about a body the speaker never touches, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address My kingdom is not of this world — that’s Christ’s own answer, standing bound in front of the one man in the room with actual worldly power to kill him, and it’s the whole of what we gather to consider today. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it — that’s Christ’s own answer today to a woman shouting the loudest compliment she can think of, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address A companion on the journey — that’s what Raphael was to Tobias, nothing more dramatic than that at first glance, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address An everlasting priesthood — today’s Epistle names something that does not tire, does not retire, and does not stop interceding, and it’s a fitting way to close out this first week of Bloom’s own record. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address He that stole, let him now steal no more — not a condemnation of someone’s past, but an instruction for what comes after it, and worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you today — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Left all things, and followed Thee — Peter’s own words to Christ, and the whole shape of the life a fifteen-year-old orphan chose in the deserts outside Gaza seventeen centuries ago. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Mercy exalteth itself above judgment — a line from today’s Epistle that a Polish professor took so seriously he gave away his own coat more than once, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain […]