Divine Encounters

Conversations of God's Engagements With Humanity

Child of God

Sacred Spaces

Conversations About How We Experience Sacred Places

Sacred Spaces

Combat Chaplaincy

Bringing the Holy to the unholy

Chaplaincy

The Future Church

What will Faith look like tommorrow?

Future Church

Lastest Ponderings

Words of Wisdom

"It is not as if a man had not sinned, but that love wholly destroys and drives out sin as if it had never been." ~ Meister Eckhart

Sacred Aloneness

Nov 3rd, 2008 by Troy Parson | 1

Christianity is full of paradoxes.  We cannot put our minds around the idea that God can be human.  Its blasphemous!  It is the great scandal.  Through that paradox, we gain life through death.  Solitude as loneliness and solitude as grace offers us another such conundrum.  One person speaks of sorrow while another experiences it as [...]

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Great Things

Oct 12th, 2008 by Troy Parson | 0

We cannot always offer God great things, but at each instance we can
offer him little things with great love. - St. Jane de Chantal
May we live life as a celebration of Your goodness with thoughts tuned in to doing all for the glory of God, our Everlasting King.  May we be the hands, feet, and [...]

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Hate the sin, but Love the sinner?

Sep 30th, 2008 by Troy Parson | 0

I think we have all heard that refrain from Christians.  They mean well, but is this truly a Biblical statement?  I am open to hear a Biblical argument for this statement.  Does it reflect the ministry of Christ?
When Jesus summarized the Law of God (God’s standard), didn’t He say, “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor [...]

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Dancing with Loneliness

Sep 29th, 2008 by Troy Parson | 0

Part of military life involves separation from loved ones for training exercises, special schools, and deployments to other parts of the world.  During these times away from our family, any healthy person is going to feel lonely because they miss their loved ones.  When you are in one of these moments, I challenge you NOT [...]

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Divine Encounters

Sep 28th, 2008 by Troy Parson | 1

I am fascinated by stories of how God has intervened or made known his presence in their lives.  Whether it miraculous, mystical, or more pragmatic.  In my own life journey, I have been the recipient of numerous of God’s works.  When I didn’t have money for food, rent, or gas, it was provided in unexplainable means. 
In [...]

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