Green Pastures Devotions

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Doubter’s hymn - 5.10.25 May 10, 2025

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“You can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.” – Anne Lamott

Pressing forward through our doubts - 5.9.25 May 09, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: Romans 4.18-21 MSG

Toxic doubt: fatal distraction - 5.8.25 May 09, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: Mark 16.9-16 MSG

The rollcall of the doubtful - 5.7.25 May 07, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: Judges 6.11-18 MSG

He’s a digger - 5.6.25 May 06, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: Proverbs 25.2; Job 28.3-5, 9-11

What do we do now – with our doubts - 5.5.25 May 05, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: John 20.24-29 MSG

He told them a story - 5.3.25 May 03, 2025

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Since we started the week with Jesus’ dark and foreboding apocalyptic discourse, let’s finish the week there, for right after verbally bursting into this dark apocalypse landscape with the radiant epiphany of his coming, he launches, as he so often does, into story mode as he encouraged his disciples to literally give a fig to their fears. Look at the fig tree, he tells us, which leads to the instruction to “pray constantly” – not as an exhaustive ongoing performance but as a persistently liberating posture as we take our fear out for a walk and keep working on that useful list. And so, after all he had told them – after all the hell breaking loose, all the tumult of nations and hearts failing for fear…

A useful list of what’s still happening - 5.2.25 May 02, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: Luke 21.25-28 MSG

Don’t fear what they fear - 5.1.25 May 01, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: Isaiah 8.11-15 MSG

Listen…calm down…don’t be afraid - 4.30.25 Apr 30, 2025

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Today’s Scripture reading: Isaiah 7.3-9 MSG