Author Archives: Morning Reflections

The Spirit Transforms

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. What do you get when five teenagers are granted super powers and brightly colored spandex suits? What American children got in 1993 was… Read more »

A Question about Thanks

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. A number of years ago a well-dressed man in his early 30s visited our church on a Sunday morning. I noticed him in the back… Read more »

The Spirit Guides

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. “Do you want to know the secret of a long life?” That’s the question Michael Gartner’s 95-year-old father asked him one day, seemingly out of… Read more »

The Spirit Teaches

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. It’s one of the iconic moments in The Matrix, a movie packed with iconic moments. Neo, the character played by Keanu Reeves, says… Read more »

The Spirit Liberates

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. Have you ever been in a jet and started wondering, “How in the world is this thing staying up in the air?” Planes are considerably… Read more »

The Spirit Sustains and Renews

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. Your body is warm.  If your temperature is “normal” your tissues fairly glow, day in and day out, at 98.6 degrees.  No wonder chocolate and… Read more »

The Spirit Empowers

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. In one fell swoop, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States. After authorizing the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, it only… Read more »

The Spirit Intercedes

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. All her life, Carly Simon has battled the Beast. The Beast is her name for the all-consuming sense of Not-Good-Enoughness that has plagued her from… Read more »

The Spirit Grows Our Character

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. The Great Wall of China is one of the most remarkable feats of human engineering.  Construction began more than 2,300 years ago.  The “Great Wall”… Read more »

The Spirit Flows

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. More than a decade ago, I was one of several thousand travelers who were stranded for much of a whole day in Houston’s largest… Read more »