Tag: discipleship
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Lavishly Sowing Seeds
The Parable of the Sower On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower…
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God’s Microphones
“Each one of you has to be God’s microphone. Each one of you has to be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is someone who has been baptized…Where is your baptism? You are baptized in your professions, in the fields of workers, in the market. Wherever there is someone…
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Surprised By God
“In the Old Testament, the novelty of the Bible did not consist merely in abstract notions but in God’s unpredictable and in some sense unprecedented activity.” – Pope Benedict XVI in Deus Caritas Est “Faith is a gift from God that catapults itself into human experience with a high degree of unpredictability. …faith seems to…
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Shepherding is Not Peaceful
Shepherding is Not Peaceful I was recently reading a book review by Horatio Clare on the UK’s The Telegraph website about a recently published title, The Shepherd’s Life, by James Rebanks. I can’t say I really know a lot about sheep and shepherds. A few years back, I was traveling the Australian countryside to work with parishes and I know…
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What Happens Next?
I am waiting in the airport in Atlanta for a flight to Indy. I have a talk tonight at a parish in Jasper, IN. When I am headed somewhere to speak or give a workshop, I never really know who will show up and how many people will even be present. The parish sometimes has…
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The Main Thing
Isn’t it time to remove all the layers of stuff built up by day-to-day life and return to the core of what conversion, discipleship, and stewardship are all about? Isn’t it time to make the main thing, THE MAIN THING? You are invited to join Tracy Earl Welliver and friends in a blogging journey to make…
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