Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
You probably already use a variety of versions as your study the Bible. I’ve found that looking at different versions can help me to see and hear things I haven’t noticed before. For that reason, I will include different versions throughout this study. The first four versions I go to are: (NIV) New International Version… Read More
Those of you who studied Romans with me have experienced the directness of Paul. He is not one who carefully talks all around a subject, but one who goes straight to the heart of the matter. That was true in Romans as well as in this letter to the Ephesians. I want to give us… Read More
I’d like to issue an invitation to you to study Paul’s letter to the Ephesians with me. Instead of only reading through the verses, we will chart what they tell us, state the main message that God revealed to us as we read this today, and doodle–take an idea into our heads and relay it… Read More
Q: Why did the student eat his homework?A: Because the teacher told him it would be a piece of cake. Q: Why was the broom late?A: It overswept. Knock, knockWho’s there?Scold.Scold who?Scold out here. Let me in. A: Why did the pony get sent home from school?A: He wouldn’t stop horsing around. The best part… Read More
I wrote this in 2015, and I believe I can hear a reaction to of all the hoopla preceeding a presidential election year. But I could have written this at any time in the last 30 years, when belief in God has been so publicly belittled as milksop for the weaklings who can’t handle life… Read More
As I looked through the collection of poetry that I have written over the years, I find that my poems generally fit in two categories: faith or working-through-it.” Sometimes, they fit both categories. When things require some deep excavating or when a new discovery thrills me, poetry is what seems to flow out of my… Read More
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary gives this full definition of scandal: a : discredit brought upon religion by unseemly conduct in a religious personb : conduct that causes or encourages a lapse of faith or of religious obedience in another loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety : disgrace a : a… Read More
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