Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Hello, I'm Pastor Kerri. As Christians, we believe God is with us all of the time. God is very near, but it takes practice to see God because we are so busy and so focused on the noisy demands of our daily lives that we often fail to see God and God's presence. Here, the primary goal of my sabbatical is to spend time seeking God's presence in my daily life. I have come to think of these..
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Exodus 32:7-14 7The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; 8they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Deuteronomy 30:15-20 15See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. 16If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Proverbs 25:6-7 6Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand in the place of the great; 7for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. The Word of the Lord. Psalm 112 1Hallelujah! Happy are they who fear the Lord and have ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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https://vimeo.com/741631618 Isaiah 58:9b-14 9bIf you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, 10if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday. 11The Lord will guide you ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Life is full of moments and events you know are coming. You can anticipate their arrival. You can even attempt to prepare yourself for these moments – emotionally – physically and materially. You can have your list and you can check this list 100,000 times (if you are like me – that is). You may ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Jason and I are nature-y people. We are both especially fond of trees and the woods and forests. We may live in a city – but we are most definitely NOT city folks. City life drains us. If we stay in the city too long without escaping – we find ourselves completely and utterly ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Jeremiah 23:23-29 23Am I a God near by, says the Lord, and not a God far off? 24Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord. 25I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, “I have dreamed ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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I love art. Art makes my brain zip and zing and come alive! I love digging in and doing artsy stuff myself. And I really love watching creativity happen. I love the way you can give 25 or even 250 people the very same art supplies and all of the art projects they dream ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Part of the call process in the ELCA entails churches and pastors exchanging great big packets of documents full of information about ourselves. We tend to call this “The Call Paperwork.” Filling out this paperwork is arduous – time consuming and often just plain excruciating. And I believe this is completely intentional! If the ..read more
Spinning Yarns With Pastor Kerri
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Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 2Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 12I, the Teacher, when king over Israel in Jerusalem, 13applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be ..read more