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September 2009 Blog Posts (18)

Pentecost 75 Overwhelmed By Circumstance?

Pentecost 75 Overwhelmed By Circumstance?

When I was in grade school I rode an old yellow county bus back and forth over the red clay roads of Guilford County in North Carolina. When the bus dropped me off at my house in the afternoon I generally ran to the door which was always open, went in and shouted, ‘I’m home.’ My mother would usually reply ‘I’m here.” When she didn’t answer I would look for her and felt uneasy until I found her. Either she was off shopping or washing clothes… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 29, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Pentecost 74 We Never Stop Being Children

Pentecost 74 We Never Stop Being Children

It’s wonderful to watch infants start to get a hold of life. Infants are helpless and totally dependent, individuals learning to be persons and constantly reaching out for physical and emotional sustenance. To see them from birth is capturing an ongoing miracle. While their learning process is slow every second contains an opportunity for the shaping of their minds and hearts. As they grow learning is more rapid and the need to guide them… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 28, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Pentecost 73 Our Parallel Universe

Pentecost 73 Our Parallel Universe

In the last column the subject was based on my experience of what would become my understanding of justification by faith. Let’s continue what that experience meant. If you remember I was alone, a stranger and it was night in a small town in Norway. I had no place to stay and no way to get back to school in Oslo. When a local son offered to let me stay in his father’s home I accepted and was warmly received without a hint of reluctance on the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 25, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

Pentecost 72 Alone, A Stranger in a Strange Place and It's Night

Pentecost 72 Alone, A Stranger in a Strange Place and It's Night

It was Summer 1964 when I was in Summer School in Norway. I hitchhiked to a little town called Rauland. It had a population of about 500. The reason I went was because there was a Harding Fiddle Festival there that centered on an instrument unique to Norway resembling a viola. It’s uniqueness is that the neck of the fiddle is fretted like a guitar. Also it has four strings inside the box that resound with the strings… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 23, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Pentecost 71 The Grand Design

Pentecost 71 The Grand Design

Recently, when I was concerned about a certain massive bill that was being introduced to Congress, I immediately asked who wrote the bill, by whose authority was it written, who was supervising its production, who was reviewing it as it was being written, who would be responsible for its ongoing supervision and what would be the long term outcome, the result, not only for the country but for each individual in the country?

The operative word… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 22, 2009 at 11:37am — No Comments

Pentecost 70 Issues, Issues, Issues

Pentecost 70 Issues, Issues, Issues

Sometimes when you are in the midst of crises there is a certain insecurity, a consciousness of being very much alone and a sense of being at the mercy of circumstances over which you have no control. Life is above and beyond you and the moment consumes you. It is not eased either as you begin to assess the social, political and economic environment. Division and its conflict create an air of anxiety. This is the situation Paul was speaking to when… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 20, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Pentecost 69 Zeroing in On Life

Pentecost 69 Zeroing in On Life

Are you easily distracted? When you are involved in a discussion do your eyes roam to other people and what they may be doing? Do you hear what people are saying, really saying, when talking to them? Do you tend to drift when you pray? If you are studying do problems pop up in your mind and they take over? Do you have a problem staying focused? Do you think frequently about ’shoulda-coulda-woulda’s’ with guilt following, the old ‘kick-yourself’… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 19, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Pentecost 68 Thy Kingdom Come

Pentecost 68 Thy Kingdom Come

Having established the Kingdom, its gates and keys, we enter the courts through the gates. The Lord Jesus planted His Kingdom in this world by going to the Cross then rising from the dead and bringing the Holy Spirit into the hearts of believers. He is the Kingdom and His courts are found in the relationship He has offered to us. It is a Kingdom of hearts bound together by the Holy Spirit.

One of the most dramatic and powerful figures in the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 18, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Pentecost 67 When It Comes Right Down To It.......

Pentecost 67 When It Comes Right Down To It…….

Of courts and kings, of temples and altars, of galaxies and worlds, of past and future, of minds and hearts, of winds and tides and comets and stars, of all that is and was and is to come the bottom line is this, “No one can lay any other foundation than the one that has already been laid. That foundation is Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11).”

This passage says three things.

First, Jesus is the foundation. This is… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 17, 2009 at 3:59pm — No Comments

Pentecost 66 The King's Courts

Pentecost 66 The King’s Courts

You’ve just been to a movie, heard a speech, read a book, been to a concert, or had a special one-on-one conversation. In each of those something special was apprehended. A message was sent and received. An insight gained. A trust renewed. In each, there was a moment when the heart was touched and in each, wisdom was transmitted. You saw life a little bit differently and it changed your outlook. You entered the court of wisdom.

When the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 14, 2009 at 9:15am — No Comments

Pentecost 65 Spiritual Horizons

Pentecost 65 Spiritual Horizons

When I see a sunset I see the Cross. When I see a sunrise I see the Resurrection. In both, the beauty is perceived in the heart, contemplated in the mind and located in Jesus. From Son-set to Son-rise, it’s all about Him.

“I just like to take in the scenery, breathe in the atmosphere and drink in the experience.” These are expressions that describe being part of and wanting more of what your mind and heart are sensing. It could be the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 11, 2009 at 8:55am — No Comments

Pentecost 64 There is No Time When You're Having a Good Time

Pentecost 64 There is No Time When You’re Having a Good Time

When you get an invitation to spend the weekend at a friend’s home there are real preparations made for your arrival. Fresh linens and the best blankets or quilts are on the guest bed. The living room is decorated with flowers and everything is put neatly in place. The den has been made ready for after dinner coffee and lots of conversation. The dining room is set with the best silver, china and candles. Special menus have… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 10, 2009 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Pentecost 63 Step By Step, From Here to There

Pentecost 63 Step By Step, From Here to There

After I graduated high school I got out on the road hitchhiking. I found work on a dairy farm in the mountains, a soda shop on Cape Cod, cutting trees, bartending, lifeguarding, cooking and eventually ending up in a shipyard in Jacksonville. When you hitchhike, anything that stops, car or truck, has about it the sense of momentary security. Every ride, every new place, every job was a court of rest and discovery in the world’s wilderness.… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 9, 2009 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Pentecost 62 Questions Looking for Answers

Pentecost 62 Questions Looking for Answers

It’s concert time and you have anticipated hearing the announced symphony. As you enter the concert hall it may be during the time the musicians are tuning their instruments, the audience in multiple conversations, each oblivious to the sounds of the other. They are all self-absorbed with talking, their instruments, listening only to what they think and feel. The massive sound is jumbled and intense. True, they are there for the symphony but… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 8, 2009 at 8:26am — No Comments

Pentecost 61 Separating the Wheat and the Chaff

Pentecost 61 Separating the Wheat and the Chaff

1Jn.4:5 “Every God-begotten person conquers the world's ways. The conquering power that brings the world to its knees is our faith. The person who wins out over the world's ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God.”

The Holy Spirit elevates Jesus as the only person to whom we can look to guide us through the growing hazy maze mankind has fallen into. It is the Holy Spirit Jesus sends to enter our heart to… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 4, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Pentecost 60 Syndrome or 'Sin-drome?' Looking Ahead

Pentecost 60 Syndrome or ‘Sin-drome?’ Looking Ahead

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (1Jn.3:8 KJV).”

When you are fishing there is nothing worse than a backlash on your reel. It looks like a pile of spaghetti. While others in the boat are casting away you are stuck trying to work through the tangled mess. You pull on one loop and another tightens. This is exactly what happens when we try to solve our own… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 3, 2009 at 9:43am — No Comments

Pentecost 59 Looking in the Rear-View Mirror

Pentecost 59 Looking in the Rear-View Mirror

“This only have I found:

God made mankind upright,

but men have gone in search of many schemes." Ecc.7:29

Albeit a fact that it was my aloneness that drove the engine of my conformity I also needed a community I could trust and that accepted me for who I was and not what I was expected to be. In those anxiety-filled years of adolescence I know now that I was led by the Spirit to enter that gothic structure far removed… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 2, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Pentecost 58 Beginning to See Beyond

Pentecost 58 Beginning to See Beyond

“The man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes. Listen with your ears. Pay attention to everything I show you. That is why the Lord brought you here. Tell the people of Israel everything you see (Ezek.40:4)."

I really don’t know how I got there. A friend perhaps had invited me. I just don’t remember. What I do remember is walking down a street and seeing a big spired church building with jutting parapets along the edges of its… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on September 1, 2009 at 11:16pm — 1 Comment