Category: Podcast

Released on the Spark My Muse podcast

The Lord is slow to anger and rich in love [SSL 337]

This post is part update and part restful reflection that might be the perfect break from election-related mayhem. Sometimes we need a perspective shift and I hope this helps! 

To find the chapter to read for yourself go here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20145&version=NIV

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What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability and soul care?
It’s not strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being. Come on board!

❇️ The November Challenge Patreon post ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968

An Altar in the World: Feeling Pain [SSL 326]

A powerful reading and short reflection on the incarnational aspects of pain from the fantastic book An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor.

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More on Barbara Brown Taylor and additional reflections await subscribers here ⬇️
https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/150461240

Find me also on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️ at the main channel HERE,
especially if you already enjoy YouTube.

What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability and soul care?
It’s not strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being. Come on board!

❇️ The October Challenge Patreon post ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968

Expectation as Patience: Henri Nouwen [SSL325]

Today is about expectation as a gateway to patience AND to joy. A reading from “Out of Solitude” a 1974 work by Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)

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A special surprise awaits subscribers here ⬇️
https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/150258212

Find me also on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️ at the main channel HERE,
especially if you already enjoy YouTube.

What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability and soul care?
It’s not strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being. Come on board!

❇️ The October Challenge Patreon post ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968

Treachery and Remorse [SSL 324]

Today a portion of a lesson I presented this past Sunday at my church on Psalm 51 a lamenting and remorseful poem/song and the background and story of King David’s epic treacheries. It might surprise you.

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FIND related slides, images/art including a schematic of an Iron Age home that Bathsheba would have had and the interior courtyard area where she would have bathed or washed anything, plus other extras you will like at the PART II page: https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/149978108

Find me also on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️go here or subscribe at the main channel HERE,
especially if you already find yourself poking around YoutTube.

What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability?
It’s not very strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being.

Go here for that ❇️ The October Challenge Patreon post ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968

Give and Take [ssl 323]

The Challenge of October is Ownership and the Theme for the Quarter is Give and Take. Here’s how we begin to explore and learn from each other.

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It’s the final quarter of 2024 and it’s time we link arms and join forces to enrich each other spiritually in more concrete ways. 

I’ve set up a challenge.
It’s not very strenuous, but it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being. Please, be a part of it. I explain that in the audio today.

Here’s a preview, in video form,
and I hope you will find me on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️go here or subscribe at the main channel HERE,
especially if you already find yourself poking around YoutTube.

FIND INFO HERE too. https://open.substack.com/pub/sparkmymuse/p/october-ownership

❇️ The October Challenge Patreon post I refer to can be found here ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968