Category: The Sacred Journey -Relationship with God
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Who Has the Final Say?
Terence Vincent Powderly, January 22, 1849–June 24, 1924 Labor Leader Source: A Year with American Saints, G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber, Church Publishing, 2006. When I began reading about Terence Vincent Powderly, the opening sentence caught my attention. The authors wrote about European churches whose members came to America bringing Old World traditions…
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Jerusalem Was Ahead
I finished writing Mysterious Grace: Breaking Ground before I began reading The Way of a Pilgrim. Perhaps that is why the ending of the pilgrim’s story affected me as deeply as it did. I did not borrow his ending for my story. After writing my own, I discovered that his journey helped me understand something…
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The Sacred Journey — Relationship with God
I believe in God. But that statement raises another question: What do I mean when I say “God”? That question has followed me throughout my pilgrimage. Is God the God I encountered in the Old Testament, where some passages portray God in ways that can seem very different from the loving and merciful God I…
