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Starting in the Right Place

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts
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Where is Jesus Going?

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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I Hate All Your Shows

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Spiritual Acromegaly

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Look Up!

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Rod Tucker in Teaching, Thoughts
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Sermon on Jonah. (Audio from the Room).

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching, Thoughts
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Study on John 4

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Abraham, Isaac, and that One Really Awkward Moment

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Jesus and The System

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Seeing the Samaritan as Good

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Make The Banquet Great Again

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Stop Fighting the Same Battles

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Other Religions?

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Women and The Kingdom

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Passive Chaplain or Prophetic Challenge?

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Why Church?

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Jesus, Pilate, Job, and You

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

A collection of stories. Redemption – Bob and Jen from The River Church on Vimeo.

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

A conversation between Jesus and Pilate.

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Moses: The Desert

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Moses: The Baby and the Superpower

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Grow: Wait

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Peter and the Boat

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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A Supernatural Normal

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Go, Know, Grow

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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How to Buy Something with No Money

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Community

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Walk Together

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Martin Luther King Jr., a Deer Carcass, Jesus, and Me

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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You Do Not Look Like God

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Conflict Sucks

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Triumphal Procession

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Stand to Your Feet

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Progress Not Perfection

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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The God of Resurrection

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Values – Intimacy, Community, Mercy, Multiplication

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Glorifying God

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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4 Minutes on Radiance

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Harvest TV

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Rod Tucker in Teaching, Video
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Seeking the One

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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The Inheritance is Ours

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Quote from Uncovered

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Interested? Check out the rest of the book: Uncovered, by Rod Tucker

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You Are A Dandelion

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Self Improvement

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts
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Book Interview with Bible Geek Gone Wild and Shaun Tabatt

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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You Are The Temple

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Generous Life Radio Interview

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Here is a radio interview I did with some great guys: Mike Stickler and Tom Clegg. Generous Life Radio

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Meant to Shine

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

We are called to have significant impact in God’s Kingdom.

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Uncovered Interview on KRVR Radio

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Click here to listen to my latest interview with KRVR Radio.

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Two

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

A friend of mine told me an old cliche today that gave me an epiphany. He said “It takes two to tango.” And it’s true. It does. How many times have you been in some kind of a conflict with another person and thought: “I’m the healthy one. I just wish they would get healthy!”? […]

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Uncovered Full Promo

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Mirror Room

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

A retired football coach, Frosty Westering, wrote a book years ago that everyone needs to read. Unfortunately, it is a collector’s item, and you need to have around $40 to get a copy. In the book he talks about the difference between the Mirror Room and the Window Room. Essentially, when you are in the […]

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Church Isn’t Safe

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Video

Church Isn’t Safe

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Welcome to Church

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Video
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Learn To Fly

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Have you ever watched a bird fly? I mean really watched? Birds are made to fly. That is what makes watching them fly so amazing. They are doing what they were created to do. Profound. Exhilarating. Wow. But did you know birds have to learn to fly? I know you knew this fact. But have […]

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The End – Catching a Glimpse

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

We as the church, are the movie trailer for the Kingdom of God

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Johny Hendricks

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Have you ever heard the name Johnny Hendricks? He is a Mixed Martial Artist. He is a good one, and recently he fought for the championship belt in his weight class. If he were to have won the belt, he would have been classified as the best fighter in the world at his weight. I […]

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American

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Here is an awesome quote from my favorite author, Brian Zahnd. Enjoy! “To be born in America is to be handed a certain script. We are largely unconscious of the script, but we are ‘scripted’ by it nevertheless. The American script is part of our nurture and education, and most of it happens without our […]

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Freedom

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 When we are being overwhelmed by God’s Spirit we are typically only concerned about what The Spirit is doing in those moments. This, I believe, creates freedom. Freedom from everything else going on in our […]

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Life-on-Life Discipleship

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Here are some great Life-on-Life Discipleship Tips. Enjoy! Rod

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On Worship

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

When Israel was finally freed from the iron grip of Egyptian slavery, they got out of there pretty quickly before the Pharaoh had any time to change his mind . Exodus 12 tells us that these newly freed people did not even wait for the yeast to make their bread rise. Instead, they quickly packed […]

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A Worshiping David

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

David was a true worshiper. From a Shepherd to a King, he changed Israel.

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Tough Conversations

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

My wife, Anna, and I are planting a church. Actually it is a site plant of another church, and we love it. Here is what we have: 1. We have excitement about what we are doing. 2. We have a desire to reach people for Jesus. 3. We have mentors who have gone before us. […]

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Sin and Sacrifice

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Leviticus Through Chairs

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God’s Voice vs. Lies

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

It is important that we learn to recognize God’s voice versus lies. Sometimes we can discern what we are hearing by recognizing what is going on internally. One important thing we can do to help ourselves discern what we hear [in our minds(maybe from God), and from others] is to establish some principles of when […]

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Worship

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” ~ C. S. Lewis God is God. And God is to be worshiped. May we take part in reveling in His luminosity.

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Fishing

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Fishing in Bible times looked like this: 1. One boat would cast a large net all the way to the bottom of a lake. 2. This large net trapped fish so that a smaller net could bring them in. 3. This fishing all occurred on ONE side of the boat. So in John 21:6 Jesus […]

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No Longer Estranged

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

2 Samuel 14:14 But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him. Have you ever noticed that God is devising ways for people to not stay far away from him? He is doing it all of the time. Think about Moses being […]

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The Fall

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

In Genesis 3 Adam hears God in the garden, notices his nakedness, becomes afraid, and as a result, hides. I believe we do the exact same thing as Adam. We hear God. We feel insecure about what He calls us toward. And so we hide. Or at least we reinterpret what He is saying to […]

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The Fall Part 2

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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When God Speaks

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

When we read Gen. 1: 1-2 we begin to see some unique qualities in regard to what happens when God speaks. We notice that God’s response to a big chaotic mess is to speak. He sees something not as He would like it and so God speaks into it, and changes its DNA. When God […]

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In The Beginning, Creation Part 3

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Trees, on this side of Heaven and this side of Eden

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The River – Dirt

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Jesus tells a story of a farmer scattering seeds. How some seeds fall on the road and get eaten by birds, some fall among thorns and get choked out before they can grow up tall, and some fall in a pile of rocks where they grow up and then get burnt by the sun. But […]

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Uncovered

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Book

Uncovered: The Truth about Honesty and Community. Here is what people (okay, one person) is saying: “This little book is dynamite — and for anyone imprisoned by shame, fear, and self-hatred, a little dynamite is exactly what is needed. Rod Tucker delivers the Good News, the message moralists despise and legalists hate. This is the […]

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Glimpses

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

When I, Rod, was a child my dad was diagnosed with Hepatitis C. We prayed for him. He went to the doctor. It was gone. I have a friend who had a slipped disc in his back. We prayed for his back. His back was fine. Maybe this was all God’s Kingdom being loosed on […]

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You Become

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Who are you in the Kingdom? Who will you become?

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The River – Multiplication

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Focusing on The River’s 2013 site plant on Lake Street.

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The River Mentoring

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Video

The church that I work at takes a different approach to student ministries. We believe that students’ can best become disciples of Jesus through life-on-life mentoring relationships. Here is a video we shot to help cast this vision:

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Little Children

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Brennan Manning writes in his book, The Importance of Being Foolish: “To become a little child again (as Jesus enjoined we must) is to recapture a sense of surprise, wonder, and vast delight in all of reality.  Look at a child’s face on Christmas morning as he enters the living room transformed by the midnight […]

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The River – Welcome Back

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Teaching
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Blessed are the poor…

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

In Matthew 5:3 Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  And in Luke 6:20 He is recorded as saying, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.” There is something profound about the Kingdom of God or Heaven coming to the poor.  […]

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Broken to Beautiful

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

A few weeks ago my wife, Anna, took an old jacket that no one would ever want to wear and made a beautiful scarf out of it.  To me this idea was brilliant. She has taken old cans that anyone normal would throw away in a heartbeat and turned them into lovely pencil holders.  She […]

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The River – Kingdom Come

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

We are called to live in authority.

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Human

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Throughout Scripture and throughout our lives we can see a common thread – there is an Enemy (whether this is called Satan, the Devil, the serpent, etc.) who is fighting against humans. We are the only branch of creation that God made in His image, and this is precisely what makes us human. This leads […]

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The River – The Last Supper

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Video

Jesus rose from the dead. He did this so that we don’t have to stay dead or even asleep for that matter. We can live! We can experience life to the fullest! But what does this mean? I got this idea from Brian Zahnd’s blog. Here is the link: http://brianzahnd.com/2006/04/the-last-supper/

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The River – Wake Up

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Teaching

Watch the video teaching on The Last Supper used during the Wake Up sermon series.

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Change

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Karl Marx has been credited with saying, “Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is, however, to change it.” I like to take this statement and change it up a bit. I say, Christians have only interpreted the church differently; the point is, however, to change it.                  There came a time, in […]

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Jesus the Prophet?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Matthew 21: 8-11 A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the […]

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Coins

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’ In the […]

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The River Student Ministries

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Rod Tucker in Video

The church that I work at takes a different approach to student ministries. We believe that students’ can best become disciples of Jesus through life-on-life mentoring relationships.

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Embrace

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Brennan Manning said, “The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.” […]

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Shut Up and Listen

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Let’s talk about Job.  Many theologians today argue that the book of Job was the first book ever written in the Bible.  I find this incredibly interesting due to the intense focus on pain and suffering in Job’s life.  Basically, this book tells the story of a man who is blameless and upright in God’s […]

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Holiness

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Rod Tucker in Thoughts

Mechthild of Magdeeurg, a thirteenth-century mystic prayed, “I cannot dance, Lord, unless you lead me.  If you want me to leap with abandon, you must intone the song.  Then I shall leap into love, from love into knowledge from knowledge to enjoyment, and from enjoyment beyond all human sensations.  There I want to remain, yet […]

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Remembering a Forgotten Grace

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Rod Tucker in Book

In a lifetime composed of falling short and trying to cover up mistakes, grace is a concept that is misunderstood and forgotten. Shame, the belief that one is the problem, creates a false pretense which makes it seem logical to systematically approach sin as something to be fixed. In ‘Remembering a Forgotten Grace,’ Rod Tucker […]

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