Tag Archives: Hope

A Conversation Between Pastor Neil White and Pastor Chris King on Racism, Faith and Hope

Posted on June 12, 2020 by

This is a conversation that I made available for both my congregation and the Frisco Interfaith Alliance between myself and Pastor Chris King. As a white pastor and leader of a primarily white congregation I felt it was important to … Continue reading →

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Matthew 16: 21-28 The Way of the Cross Part 1

Posted on May 21, 2020 by

Matthew 16: 21-28 21 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on … Continue reading →

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The Air is Heavy

Posted on March 26, 2020 by

  The air is heavy as it fills my lungs with its leaden weight For in this springtime of the year in addition to the pollen, The heavy perfume of the earth reawakening from its slumber The emergence of wildflowers … Continue reading →

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Bleeding Words

Posted on February 13, 2020 by

Forgive the words that bleed out from this pen For the ink that forms them is a torturous mixture Of a wounded heart’s flow mixed with the saline Of the river of tears which flow to the sea of grief … Continue reading →

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New Growth

Posted on January 29, 2020 by

  Water washes away the sins of the night, pushing them downward to the gutters Running back through the storm sewers and into the rivers and eventually into the sea Where they sink down, deeper and deeper, into the abyss … Continue reading →

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Psalm 40 Experienced Faithfulness and the Hope of Deliverance

Posted on March 1, 2018 by

Psalm 40 <To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.> 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set … Continue reading →

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Prophesy to the Wind

Posted on August 18, 2017 by

O mortal can these bones live? This people who continues to dwell in the valley of death This people who refuses to learn from the past, these ears that did not hear These hands which did not help and the … Continue reading →

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Mosaic

Posted on April 22, 2016 by

Looking back on all the pieces of my life Is not like looking at a picture composed on a canvas That brings together the palette of colors and shades To paint a portrait of a person who emerges whole Stepping … Continue reading →

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Psalm 12-Save Us from Ourselves

Posted on April 18, 2016 by

Psalm 12 To the leader: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. 1 Help, O LORD, for there is no longer anyone who is godly;    the faithful have disappeared from humankind. 2 They utter lies to each other; … Continue reading →

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Deuteronomy 30 – Hope Beyond the Curse

Posted on February 29, 2016 by

  Deuteronomy 30: 1-10 Returning to the LORD 1 When all these things have happened to you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, if you call them to mind among all the nations where the … Continue reading →

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