Comments on: “Ash Wednesday” Feb. 6 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:29:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: preacherman http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2101 preacherman Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:59:34 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2101 Thank you. Right now I am having the worst migraine I have ever had in my life and am going to be. I appeciate your prayers. Thank you.
Right now I am having the worst migraine I have ever had in my life and am going to be. I appeciate your prayers.

]]> By: John Frye http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2100 John Frye Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:21:58 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2100 (Preacherman) Kinney, I visited your website and posted a prayer for you in the "comments" section. We'll keep praying. (Preacherman) Kinney,
I visited your website and posted a prayer for you in the “comments” section. We’ll keep praying.

]]> By: John Frye http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2099 John Frye Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:21:02 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2099 Greg, God bless you, my brother. Greg,
God bless you, my brother.

]]> By: preacherman http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2098 preacherman Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2098 John, I come from a church that doesn't practice ash Wed. I wish we did. It think it looses its sybolism and meaning. It think it helps us loose our understanding that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I wish by observing this ritual we would see that we sin, we make mistakes, we aren't holier than thou. I wish by observing this ritual it would help draw us closer and closer to grace of God. Excellent post brother. I have another note that I would like to ask of you brother. I would like to ask you and all of your fellow blogger to stop by my blog and pray for my wife and I. I am not doing good in health. Please stop by and pray for me it would mean alot to me. I understand if you can't. You have alread do so much to encourage my faith in so many ways: you posts, you taking the time to respond to me; but it would me so much if not just you but all of your readers would stop by and let me know your praying or say short pray; light a candle at Mass. John,
I come from a church that doesn’t practice ash Wed. I wish we did. It think it looses its sybolism and meaning. It think it helps us loose our understanding that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I wish by observing this ritual we would see that we sin, we make mistakes, we aren’t holier than thou. I wish by observing this ritual it would help draw us closer and closer to grace of God. Excellent post brother.

I have another note that I would like to ask of you brother. I would like to ask you and all of your fellow blogger to stop by my blog and pray for my wife and I. I am not doing good in health. Please stop by and pray for me it would mean alot to me. I understand if you can’t. You have alread do so much to encourage my faith in so many ways: you posts, you taking the time to respond to me; but it would me so much if not just you but all of your readers would stop by and let me know your praying or say short pray; light a candle at Mass.

]]> By: Greg Laughery http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2097 Greg Laughery Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:53:53 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2097 Thanks John. Excellent post. Thanks John. Excellent post.

]]> By: John http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2095 John Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:06:24 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2095 Sacred Vapor, I agree. I think we miss the power of symbol, too. Sacred Vapor,
I agree. I think we miss the power of symbol, too.

]]> By: sacred vapor http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2093 sacred vapor Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:46:46 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2093 good thoughts on Ash Wednesday. I think many of us in evangelical circles tend to forget the importance of ashes and the roots in biblical symbolism. good thoughts on Ash Wednesday. I think many of us in evangelical circles tend to forget the importance of ashes and the roots in biblical symbolism.

]]> By: John http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2085 John Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:33:41 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2085 Post Blackbird Song, You are in a sacred and wise place it seems with death all around..."it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone..." Post Blackbird Song,
You are in a sacred and wise place it seems with death all around…”it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone…”

]]> By: After The Blackbird Sings http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2084 After The Blackbird Sings Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:27:04 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/ashes-to-ashes#comment-2084 I thought for a second from the post title that you were going to reference the Wallflowers' song. I was going to jump for joy. I'm finding in my new job as a CENA at a nursing home that death is all around, in so many forms. People can lose their minds, their memories, their freedom, their independence, their comfort...and then their bodies die. It's hard with so much death around all the time, not to focus on it and forget the new life we have in Christ. I thought for a second from the post title that you were going to reference the Wallflowers’ song. I was going to jump for joy.

I’m finding in my new job as a CENA at a nursing home that death is all around, in so many forms. People can lose their minds, their memories, their freedom, their independence, their comfort…and then their bodies die. It’s hard with so much death around all the time, not to focus on it and forget the new life we have in Christ.

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