2024.11.17

TOYIN’ Liminality Trapped between change and change-back Ambivalent state I know YOU’re out there somewhere Why won’t we move toward YOU? “Liminality” – an original TANKA by HitchHiker uninspired by our spiritual inaction

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2024.11.15

Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight. Psalm 119:143 It is interesting how similar the two words at the beginning of this sentence, trouble, and anguish, are, not just in English but in Hebrew. Both speak to feeling constricted or pressured into a narrow space, implying that the enemy […]

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2024.11.12

Balance… I recently led discussions on John Stott’s book Balanced Christianity. In it, he cites a theologian, Charles Simeon, who describes a balanced approach to Christianity as “oscillating (not vacillating) from pole to pole” without becoming stationary at either end. Both poles, be they intellect and emotion, conservative and radical, form and freedom, or evangelism […]

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2024.11.10

TOYIN’ To submit to God is a liberating thing Not a worldly thing Worldly people seek control They find worldly enslavement “Inverse Opposite“ – an original TANKA by HitchHiker who never ceases to be amazed!

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2024.11.08

“And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 I took a huge risk […]

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2024.11.05

Recently, “J” told me that she had an experience with someone insisting that they did something at such and such a place. However, the facts were that this person could not have done said thing at the specified place. Ironically, another person in the conversation corroborated the first person’s story. There are three things that […]

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2024.11.03

TOYIN’ Pray with me for Peace Peace in our Lands and our Homes Peace in families Peace with friends and enemies Peace for Peacemakers . Amen! “Peace” – an original HitchHiker TANKA inspired by Jesus’s call to us to be peacemakers. Now is very much that time!

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