April 6, 2022
by Patrick Pace
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Category:
Lent Devotionals 2022
| Tags: Jesus, Lent, repentance, king, sheep, shepherd
Sheep wander the lowland darkness, nibbling at the hardwoods that grow among the bogs and the burnt hollows. An impossible ridge separates them from green meadows, azure pools, and the golden throne of God, and the flock knows it not. Wolves also wander there. And we, the sheep, follow in their wolvery....
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November 27, 2021
by Patrick Pace
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Category:
Advent 2021
| Tags: hope
I know little of hope, except perhaps the shadowy thing that normally takes its name......
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June 2, 2021
by Patrick Pace
| Tags: Devotional, power, witness, blog, failure, message, pentecost
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth” (Acts 1:8 NET)....
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March 25, 2021
by Patrick Pace
| Tags: Lent, hope, light, darkness, Easter, sunset
We near Easter as the disciples neared the resurrection. Indeed, we near our own resurrection as they neared his. Christ has gone, and yet we walk. But like those pinks and oranges, like the stars that break the black, the Spirit now breathes Christ into all the empty spaces....
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March 21, 2019
by Patrick Pace
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Category:
Lent Devotional
Then Job answered the Lord:"Indeed, I am completely unworthy how could I reply to you?I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.I have spoken once, but I cannot answer;twice, but I will say no more."(Job 40:3-5, NET2)Then Job answered the Lord:"I know that you can do all things;no purpose of yours can be thwarted;you asked,'Who is this who darkens counselwithout knowl...
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February 23, 2018
by Patrick Pace
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Category:
Lent Devotional
Once chaos cracked the firmament,
Its offspring drowned the land.
Now sunlight strikes the atmosphere
Like blows of Father's hand.
What grace is light? What grace is Law?
What grace is sacrifice
To those who, born of flesh, confuse
With sacrifice our vice?
From chariots, you led us hence
Through sea to holy hill.
But though enslaved to whip and brick,
By cov...
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