100 Days of Morning Prayers

This project started at the beginning of 2022 and ran for 100 days. There is a prayer based on the New Revised Common Lectionary for each of the 100 days beginning on January 1, 2022. Click the image to read the prayer.

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Revival - Fear to Love No. 2

To improve the condition or strength of something worn-out or weak is to revive it. When an old toy or concept becomes popular or important again (insert bellbottoms) it is revived or experiencing a state of revival. In a church setting, a revival, for those who have never experienced it, is a series of services, usually within a weeks’ time, intended to awaken the heart to the critical need to accept God as your personal Lord and Savior.

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From Fear to Love No. 1

As a little girl sitting alone in my acolyte robe on the front pew of my small-town church, my legs too short to touch the floor, I remember being terrified of the pastor. Dressed in his robe of all black, towering over me from the pulpit, he yelled, a lot. Of course, my small, undeveloped brain from nearly 40 years ago does not remember the actual words he used, but the feelings persist.

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