Category Archives: religion

Holiness and Body Awareness

Posted on July 28, 2021 by wamplerp

Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows … Continue reading →

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Peas and Carrots

Posted on July 11, 2021 by wamplerp

During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Son though he … Continue reading →

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Bartenders of Blessings

Posted on July 8, 2021 by wamplerp

The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The … Continue reading →

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The Master Gardener

Posted on June 29, 2021 by wamplerp

Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. … Continue reading →

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Mixing up the Messenger and Master

Posted on December 12, 2020 by wamplerp

After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming … Continue reading →

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Setting Aside the Sabbath

Posted on November 22, 2020 by wamplerp

On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw … Continue reading →

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Lessons by the Lake

Posted on September 19, 2020 by wamplerp

Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at … Continue reading →

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Blasphemy

Posted on August 15, 2020 by wamplerp

Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the elders had assembled. 58 But Peter followed him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. He … Continue reading →

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Adopted Stones

Posted on August 3, 2018 by wamplerp

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And … Continue reading →

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Eddying Out at the Confluence

Posted on July 31, 2018 by wamplerp

“He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,’ … Continue reading →

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