Moving to Another Blog Address

   When I got started with blogging I didn’t fully understand how WordPress worked. As a result, I simply made my first blog revtdg.wordpress.com and I called it The Pastor’s Ponderings. I have decided that it would be better to have a blog with a more descriptive address. Therefore, I have exported this blog and [...]

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The Things You See on Television

This past Monday night I was watching one of my favorite shows, Heroes. During one of the commercial breaks, a commercial comes on that has a young man in his 20’s simply standing and looking at a magazine. After a few seconds it becomes clear that it was a Penthouse or Playboy or some similar [...]

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Troubled Hearts

John 14: 1-3
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a [...]

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Keeping Watch at the Tomb

Daily Lectionary Readings:
Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16
Job 14:1-14
1 Peter 4:1-8
Matthew 27:57-66
 Matthew 27:57-66 
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 The Burial of Jesus
 57As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that [...]

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Do I Look Like Christ?

Daily Lectionary Readings:
Psalm 36:5-11
Isaiah 42:1-9
Hebrews 9:11-15
John 12:1-11

John 12:1-11 
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Jesus Anointed at Bethany 
1Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining [...]

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The Emotional God

Daily Lectionary Readings:
Psalm 22
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-13
Romans 11:13-24
John 11:28-44

John 11:28-44 
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  28And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went [...]

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A Friend in Faith

Daily Lectionary Readings
Psalm 72
Jeremiah 3:6-18
Romans 1:28-2:11
John 5:1-18
 
John 5:1-18 New International Version (NIV)
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John 5
The Healing at the Pool
 1Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] [...]

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Lord, I am Tempted

Daily Lectionary Readings
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Psalm 91:1-2,9-16
Romans 10:8-31
Luke 4:1-13
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Luke 4
The Temptation of Jesus
1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing [...]

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Commanding Love

John 15, 9-17
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in [...]

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Strange Noises from the Pastor’s Office

If you have been to the church in the morning hours recently, then there is the chance that you may have heard some strange sounds coming from my office. I have been using the book The Divine Hours by Phyllis Tickle as my devotional book. Ms. Tickle is the religious editor for Publishers Weekly. She [...]

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