tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.comments2023-10-18T03:19:36.584-04:00outWORD by Matte DowneyMatte Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475890740790772858noreply@blogger.comBlogger660125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-26204701874937083012022-02-25T21:31:07.823-05:002022-02-25T21:31:07.823-05:00Casino Bonus 2021 | Free spins no deposit at Lucky...Casino Bonus 2021 | Free spins no deposit at Lucky<br />Casino Bonus Codes · $1,020 · Free Cash Back <a href="https://casinosites.one/av-%eb%b3%b4%eb%8a%94-%ea%b3%b3.html" rel="nofollow">토토 사이트 해킹</a> in Cash · 10 Free Spins at Slot <a href="https://www.poormansguidetocasinogambling.com/%eb%93%9c%eb%9e%98%ea%b3%a4-%ed%80%98%ec%8a%a4%ed%8a%b8-11-%ec%b9%b4%ec%a7%80%eb%85%b8.html" rel="nofollow">카지</a> Machine Casino · 100% Up To $600 · Minimum Deposit <a href="https://www.poormansguidetocasinogambling.com/%ec%9c%84%eb%8b%89%ec%8a%a4-%ec%82%ac%ec%9d%b4%ed%8a%b8.html" rel="nofollow">브라 벗기</a> of <a href="https://www.oklahomacasinoguru.com/%ec%8a%a4%ed%94%bc%eb%93%9c-%eb%b0%94%ec%b9%b4%eb%9d%bc.html" rel="nofollow">카 심바 슬롯</a> $5 · Minimum deposit $10. <a href="https://baccaratsites777.com/%eb%a1%9c%ed%88%ac%ec%8a%a4-%ec%b9%b4%ec%a7%80%eb%85%b8.html" rel="nofollow">하이 포커</a>zanzaffinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02035589991600288211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-77370533741161238982021-10-02T14:47:40.000-04:002021-10-02T14:47:40.000-04:00Wow, great points Matte, especially about who we i...Wow, great points Matte, especially about who we identify with in the text. Ouch and double ouch. But even though it's a slap upside the head, it's also an invitation in a way, to a richer experience of scripture than we've had till now. Thanks for that. Shelleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-88206734734366883422021-09-27T08:20:10.219-04:002021-09-27T08:20:10.219-04:00Thanks for this. I appreciate an alternative insi...Thanks for this. I appreciate an alternative insight to the usual dualistic concept.Nancyhttp://www.underthegazeofgrace.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-11216495008800672362020-10-25T18:40:44.287-04:002020-10-25T18:40:44.287-04:00Disconnection, dislocation and disorientation do h...Disconnection, dislocation and disorientation do have gifts embedded within them. Having experienced something of this within the last couple of years, it has been a necessary and useful exercise to ask myself. What happened and why am I feeling this? To what or whom should my life be connected? What does location have to do with the meaning in/of my life? And how do I get self oriented to what I believe self should be facing? Working through these questions doesn't make the process easier, but it certainly has potential to make it productive. Thanks for your post.CharKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07884910008329907617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-58275215274621807872020-09-03T11:30:20.335-04:002020-09-03T11:30:20.335-04:00Hunger is the best sauce. When Jesus said Blessed ...Hunger is the best sauce. When Jesus said Blessed are the poor<br />in spirit, I think that is what he was intimating. Their blessing<br />is the profound enjoyment of partaking of what they are truly<br />hungry for. That indefinable factor that makes the most prosaic<br />edible like ambrosia. khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08691599474649190828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-16211872669158817402020-04-13T02:05:32.830-04:002020-04-13T02:05:32.830-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.peterandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234129179366102075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-30517733486107005102020-04-02T13:43:21.580-04:002020-04-02T13:43:21.580-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Health LINEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01048903334619426810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-18194412398094517482020-04-02T13:43:02.402-04:002020-04-02T13:43:02.402-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Health LINEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01048903334619426810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-89939701868836838952020-01-09T14:39:29.236-05:002020-01-09T14:39:29.236-05:00Love it.Love it.Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353731819107432485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-74129221451332481632019-10-10T19:29:47.180-04:002019-10-10T19:29:47.180-04:00Love this.Love this.Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353731819107432485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-83678045838134351002019-08-24T22:49:49.205-04:002019-08-24T22:49:49.205-04:00Almost 50 years ago in 1971, my young husband and ...Almost 50 years ago in 1971, my young husband and I went to do our first (and only) international outreach with YWAM, at the time called a Summer of Service. The training we received in Arizona before crossing into Mexico for our outreach had us going door to door with the few words some of us had just learned in Spanish. I will never forget the first time an Hispanic looking person answered our door knock and I said carefully, 'Yo quiero hablar con usted acerca de Dios' The person responded to me, 'Si...' I had nothing else that I could say in Spanish. And so we left that door in confusion and embarrassment. Later on the same trip, we went to Cuba and a few of us ended up in a Catholic church where a youth group was holding a dance. As I watched the young Cubans my fairly narrow and rigid evangelical understanding of what it meant to be a Christian was severely challenged. The Holy Spirit graciously had a learning opportunity for me. A young Cuban, perhaps noticing our/my disapproval, came over to engage with us. I can't remember what I asked - perhaps something about sponsoring a dance in their church. He said words I have never forgotten: 'We have decided to keep the doors to the kingdom of God open.' I learned much in that encounter about being a witness.Charmaine Keldernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-60690239845804675912019-08-21T04:40:11.146-04:002019-08-21T04:40:11.146-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Michel starchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13613494045263839828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-25792134425333094052019-07-10T06:53:19.556-04:002019-07-10T06:53:19.556-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.poshehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09071706825001021412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-16911387118374506392019-06-12T06:19:25.234-04:002019-06-12T06:19:25.234-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.bitcoin exchanger trustedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16740297783311553740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-46743859143249104342019-06-12T06:19:19.373-04:002019-06-12T06:19:19.373-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.bitcoin exchanger trustedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16740297783311553740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-77059605211810947762018-12-19T12:24:32.911-05:002018-12-19T12:24:32.911-05:00Great thoughts - especially on Shalom / Shalam. I ...Great thoughts - especially on Shalom / Shalam. I always love hearing Kris MacQueen's artistry, and a beautiful Christmas song it is. Thanks Matte!Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353731819107432485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-562253787763831582018-12-04T01:34:20.164-05:002018-12-04T01:34:20.164-05:00This is one of my favourite blogs of yours. The pe...This is one of my favourite blogs of yours. The perspective of Hagar and the important position she holds in this narrative, being one of the first people to name God, even as property of Sara, forced into relations with her “owners” husband, and never holding any social status (or even recognized as a person), challenges me to listen to the voices that I normally dismiss and listen for how they might be showing me a new perspective on God.Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353731819107432485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-22584209272912559682018-07-19T10:31:38.889-04:002018-07-19T10:31:38.889-04:00Preach! No, shout! So insightful and challenging, ...Preach! No, shout! So insightful and challenging, thanks Matte! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-46561214723946517082018-03-21T13:52:27.024-04:002018-03-21T13:52:27.024-04:00Thanks, Shelley.Thanks, Shelley.Matte Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13475890740790772858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-21284615828970164422018-03-20T18:32:11.480-04:002018-03-20T18:32:11.480-04:00in the words of the British: brilliant. absolute...in the words of the British: brilliant. absolutely brilliant. Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12295453584404376725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-62713206690314776192017-11-29T00:54:40.220-05:002017-11-29T00:54:40.220-05:00I find that ending encouraging as well.I find that ending encouraging as well.Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353731819107432485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-41135922160160194322017-10-06T15:05:01.550-04:002017-10-06T15:05:01.550-04:00Thanks for your comment and the story about the ea...Thanks for your comment and the story about the eagle. Intriguing.Matte Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13475890740790772858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-91142946077503873972017-10-05T10:06:31.496-04:002017-10-05T10:06:31.496-04:00Love this post. I will now have an enriched image...Love this post. I will now have an enriched image as I read 'LORD Almighty' in the scriptures. A few years ago, there was a live web camera mounted high in a tree above an eagle's nest on Vancouver Island. It drew many viewers including me, a bird lover. One early evening at dusk, I clicked in to see the adult eagle settling in over her hatchlings for the night. This was not a quick fly in and plunking her body down on the little ones. It was a somewhat prolonged fussing and adjusting herself carefully to settle over her eaglets. Slowly the light faded and I was left with only the shadowy silhouette to view - and remember. Thanks for your research and writing.<br />CharKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07884910008329907617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-26402448175744654012017-08-24T12:51:11.463-04:002017-08-24T12:51:11.463-04:00Thanks, Terry.Thanks, Terry.Matte Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13475890740790772858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984344.post-46519789215177920092017-08-24T05:29:04.596-04:002017-08-24T05:29:04.596-04:00Hello Matte,
Thank you very much for writing this...Hello Matte,<br /><br />Thank you very much for writing this. It's a wise and timely message.<br /><br />.ttjTerry T. Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577666495364305700noreply@blogger.com