Date: 3/3/2004
Time: 10:03:58 AM
To those who have experienced long years in exile, the return to their native land seems like an unbelievable promise of free food and drink for all who come to the celebration. What is more, those who return to the Lord also enjoy new life and forgiveness, because God's ways are not our ways.
Date: 3/5/2004
Time: 12:11:27 PM
Lovely, lovely Words - ministered to me so much during the midst of the national denominational conference I am on right now.
These words reminded me that some how we've always managed to miss the mind of God: 1) We spent money and labor on things that not fulfill nor essential; 2) We thought that somehow God is working within our ethnic/religious boundaries only; 3) We study the problems we encountered and plan for solutions and forget that God's ways and thoughts are always higher than ours anyway.
Let us be faithful in contextualize the "How" for ourselves, while at the same time, we should be open to the sovereignty of God, and recognize that He himself had already worked through all this stuff and readily provided for us too.
Coho, Midway City
Date: 3/8/2004
Time: 6:09:37 AM
Coho, Midway City,
Your words seem to bring an ethnic music to the discussion. I'd like to know more about your ministry. Could you email me at rowell.michelle.r@usa.net ? Thanks.
Michelle
Date: 3/8/2004
Time: 11:52:24 AM
I dearly love this passage, which speaks eloquently to me about God's providence and grace. I like to extend the reading all the way through verse 13, though - there are beautiful words of assurance and promise contained in verses 10-13.
RevMary
Date: 3/9/2004
Time: 7:17:06 AM
The prophet calls the people to take nourishment in the covenant and promises of God. One imagines a flourishing community among those who feast on such rich food. But first they must turn from that which is not satisfying.
Date: 3/9/2004
Time: 1:11:44 PM
In the RCL, Episcopal Edition, the reading for this Sunday is Exodus 3, the call of Moses. If Pharoah represents for us sin, evil, or Satan, then we see how God calls us out of slavery into freedom.
tom in ga
Date: 3/11/2004
Time: 8:39:15 AM
What does "Ho" mean anyway??
Heidi in MN
Date: 3/11/2004
Time: 2:38:41 PM
Heidi in MN, The Message translates "Ho" as, "Hey there! mkinnh
Date: 3/13/2004
Time: 2:11:31 PM
Our pew Bibles are NIV; they don't have the "HO!" I wish they did. "HO!" is kind of like the hip-hop "YO!" or the order to a horse for it to move forward---the opposite of "WOE!" Cattlemen I used to work for would say of someone who lacked common sense: "He don't know GEE from HAW" (HO from WOE in this case.
Joe in TX