Exploring the Greatest Sermon Ever Preached
In the heart of the Gospel of Matthew, nestled between the infancy narrative and the passion account, lies the Sermon on the Mount....
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wendyfermata
Jan 263 min read
When You Fast...
Frustration overwhelms me as I reflect on so much wasted time during a week of being homebound by a week of snow and ice. I haven’t been...
wendyfermata
Jan 253 min read
New Year, New You?
It’s a new year! Welcome to 2024! Are you wondering what this year will hold? It always seems to make more sense to us to celebrate the...
wendyfermata
Dec 18, 20234 min read
God's Upside-Down Kingdom of Joy
We are entering the third week of Advent where the invitation is to joy! From the angel’s words to Zechariah about his coming son, “He...
wendyfermata
Dec 10, 20233 min read
God's Upside-Down Kingdom of Peace
Picture Jesus and his disciples: the triumphant entry into Jerusalem is behind them; they are gathered together around the table,...
wendyfermata
Dec 1, 20233 min read
God's Upside-Down Kingdom of Hope
Long, long ago in the creation of the heavens, God reached out a finger and touched one spinning planet, our earth. And God spoke, and...
wendyfermata
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Wonder with Wendy on Wednesday, November 29
Four hundred silent years, they say, followed the penning of the last word of what we now call the Old Testament. The Jewish world...
Dominic Abaria
Nov 27, 20233 min read
The Dark Side of Checking Out - What our Consumeristic Urges Say About Us
Black Friday and Cyber Monday mark the apex of American consumerism. As this Cyber Monday comes to a close, I am baffled by the reports...
wendyfermata
Nov 17, 20233 min read
Reimaging Thanksgiving
Have you ever asked God for something and then regretted asking? As I was thinking about sharing some ideas for making Thanksgiving more...
wendyfermata
Nov 15, 20231 min read
Wonder with Wendy on Wednesday, November 15
I am sitting here today, watching the wind moving quietly through the trees— wondering if the trees feel it as a gentle touch, a gentle...
wendyfermata
Nov 10, 20233 min read
Unearthing Thanksgiving
I am thinking back to our first Thanksgiving here in Portland. We had been here three months. Everything felt very strange. We were...
wendyfermata
Nov 8, 20232 min read
Wonder with Wendy on Wednesday, November 8
John 18:11 “Do you think for a moment I’m not going to drink this cup the Father has given me?” Peter here rose impulsively to your...
wendyfermata
Nov 4, 20233 min read
The Gift of Gratitude
November for me means celebrating Thanksgiving; that often seems like America’s most overlooked holiday. Coming from New Zealand where...
wendyfermata
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Wonder with Wendy on Wednesday
[Disclosure: I have been reading very slowly through the Gospel of John for some time, pausing whenever a verse or phrase posed a...
Dominic Abaria
Oct 27, 20234 min read
Living in the Manifest Presence of God
In Christian theology, we hold to a doctrine of omnipresence, which in simple terms means that God is immediately present at all places...
wendyfermata
Oct 22, 20234 min read
Fall, or is it Spring?
Someone forgot to tell my blueberry bush that, actually, it is fall right now. And my neighbor’s Azalea bushes also failed to get the...
wendyfermata
Oct 15, 20232 min read
This New Horizon for Me
I wonder if you are enjoying expanding your horizon. As you seek to follow in Jesus’ footsteps and spend time with Father God in the...
wendyfermata
Oct 8, 20232 min read
Expanding Your Horizons
An online study on the gospel of Matthew. Would I like to listen? Well, yes… Do you ever find yourself listening to a familiar Bible...
wendyfermata
Oct 2, 20233 min read
Living with a Porpoise
Can it really be nearly October? Do you ever find yourself feeling that the days rush by, the weeks vanish, the months…even the year...?...
wendyfermata
Sep 22, 20231 min read
Be Still...
More and more I am beginning to wonder if the answer is in stillness… that there really is no question… ...
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