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Wonderful and Awful: Resurrection

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. Resurrection was the subject of endless late-night discussions in seminary. “You don’t really. Believe in resurrection, do you? 8220;Are you kidding? If Jesus wasn’t resurrected, my faith has no meaning.”. 8220;Resurrection is a myth.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Marcia is a writer, photographer, hosp...

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Wonderful and Awful: Afterlife

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. In the October 18, 2012 issue of Newsweek a neurosurgeon writes about his journey to the afterlife. Dr Eben Alexander chronicles in vivid, sensory detail his near-death experience after his cortex shut down for seven days due to a rare bacterial meningitis. While in a deep coma, Alexander experienced. Somethin...

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Wonderful and Awful: The Courage to Change

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. The Courage to Change. So often in our willingness to surrender, to hand things over to God, we forget that we also prayed for "the courage to change the things that we can." Who doesn't want God to step in, to wave some kind of supranatural wand and have the source of our disquiet disappear? Can move our feet.

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Wonderful and Awful: I Am Torn

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. O God, I am torn. Do I rant or praise? This world is so magnificent,. And I cannot divert. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PLEASE VISIT MY PHOTO WEBSITE. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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Wonderful and Awful: Paradox of fog

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. Can obscure, yet it. Can also make visible the. Like fog, faith enables us to see things that are normally not visible to the naked eye. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PLEASE VISIT MY PHOTO WEBSITE. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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Wonderful and Awful: Jesus vs. Religion

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. Jesus vs. Religion. What is the kind of religion that Jesus opposed? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PLEASE VISIT MY PHOTO WEBSITE. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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Wonderful and Awful: There's no such thing as NOT worshipping...

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. There's no such thing as NOT worshipping. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god.

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Wonderful and Awful: Responsive prayer for our world

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. Responsive prayer for our world. Lord, sometimes the world feels like it’s spinning out of control. We no longer believe what we hear or read. We’ve grown cynical about everything from climate change. To the number of American children who are hungry. We don’t want to know what we know.

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Wonderful and Awful: The Mystery that's God

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Rudolf Otto wrote of the "mysterium tremendum," the wonderful and awe-filled experience that is God. Thanks for joining me on this journey through the wonderful and sometimes awful moments of life. The Mystery that's God. It seems the more I think, pray, study and experience,. The more unknowable God becomes. This, I suppose, is. What is meant by the mystery of God. I love that God is. So much more than I’ll ever be able to comprehend. Yet. It’s frustrating for someone like me - who loves to figure.