When the Music Stops and the Dance is Done
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Epiosde 182 When the Music Stops and the Dance is Done You are dancing with your partner to your favorite song when the music stops and the dancefloor disappears. Does the dance make sense anymore? With no beat to synchronize your steps, is it a dance with meaning anymore? I’d say not. It becomes awkward movements to a song that doesn’t exist and none of it matters: not the rhythm, the flow, the grand crescendo, nor the big dip at the end. When the world goes away, or our time in it – when the music stops and the dancefloor goes away – when you are faced with the heavenly...
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These Problems and the Pain they Cause
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 181 These Problems and the Pain they Cause There is a recurring problem in the world and its one that we don’t particularly enjoy dealing with it and its as CS Lewis puts it: the problem of pain. Everywhere we look we see suffering and agonizing through the trials of life and we see folks who carry heavy, heavy loads – some that are so heavy we wonder how they are not crushed under the weight of it. Pain comes in many different shapes and sizes and it does not discriminate to whom or when it rears its ugly head, but come to us it does, often in such a way that it makes...
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A Mother's Love
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 180 Mother's Love I want to begin by telling you about a woman I know who I was introduced to as a child and continue to have a wonderful relationship with her to this day. Her story is amazing and inspiring, and I share it with you in the spirit of this Mother’s Day in the hope that it might inspire you too.
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Cease and Desist
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 178 Cease and Desist! There are many: MANY who would love to silence the Word of God in this world; who would like us – you and me – to not mention the name of Jesus, the promise of Salvation, the victory over death, or any of the amazing miracles of a life lived in Christ. Many who would have us tried and slapped with a mandate to cease and desist our Christian belief and practice. What is to become us?
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These Men - These Priests
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 178 These Men - These Priests In an otherwise dark world, the priest is the light of Christ that cuts through the darkness, chasing the shadows and bathing the world in the truth and hope of Jesus. We must pray that they hear His call daily and stay the path and stay the course, lest he go astray – which is always a great tragedy when there is one less priest to afford us the blessed Eucharist. Pray for priest and pray for those discerning vocations.
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What Has God Done for You?
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 177 What Has God Done for You? “Do you realize what I have done for you?” That line says so much by asking all of us a big, big question. “Do you realize what I have done for you?” I think THAT is the question that should be in our hearts and on our minds when we awaken on Easter Morning. We should meditate on that and bake that into our prayers daily and then spend our lives answering that question – or trying to answer that question.
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Dry Bones Come to Life
Deacon Speakin'
Many fall asleep in faith and many die. Still living, but spiritually and faithfully asleep. Going through the motions, not really sure and not really unsure of what it is their faith has in their life. Not completely engaged with their faith; going through the motions, existing. Those who die to their faith quit; as a dead man: unable to move; unable to be. Listless and without response. What does it take to awaken the sleeping and the dead.
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Throwing Rocks
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 175 Throwing Rocks Who are we to judge? Who are we to be judged by the scribes and the Pharisees of our time? Do we find ourselves the unknown man in this story and know that we have sinned – have been caught red-handed in sin, and carry that sin like a yoke around our necks…never approaching Jesus in our sinful state with all the humility and shame that comes with it and never asking for that yoke to be removed from us. He is the only one who can remove the yoke and the burden and pain and the suffering of that yoke – He’s the only one who can absolve you and forgive...
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The Ghosts of the Monastery
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 174 The Ghosts of the Monastery When I stepped onto the familiar grounds of the monastery, checked into my room, and began to tread the trodden trails of the monastery halls and places – I was immediately greeted by the ghosts. But not before running into my dear friend Steve who was parked upon a wooden bench, walking stick by his side, journaling as he has faithfully done for years. When I sat with him, we remembered Tony...
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Bickering and Complaining
Deacon Speakin'
Season 7 Episode 173 Bickering and Complaining Bickering and Complaining is really a one-sided argument when not a means to resolution – a resonant noise; a clanging of cymbals; a resounding gong (to quote First Corinthians) and a lot of “hoo-ha” in some cases. We all have that right to complain, and I’ve been complained to, I have complained, and I have been complained about and it always begs the question: to what end?
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These Men - These Priests
In an otherwise dark world, the priest is the light of Christ that cuts through the darkness, chasing the shadows and bathing the world in the truth and hope of Jesus. We must pray that they hear His call daily and stay the path and stay the course, lest he go astray – which is always a great tragedy when there is one less priest to afford us the blessed Eucharist. Pray for priest and pray for those discerning vocations.
