Author: showtunessal
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Be Real
Happy Monday students! I hope you are completing all of your assignments. Today you were supposed to listen to your heart and start fighting temptations. We’ve come a long way in 6 days. These forty days are going to be like mathematics. They will culminate or build on one another. Back row go ahead and…
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Temptation
Luke 4:1-13 Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert and was tempted Happy Sunday students! Sundays are always busy for me. I go to church early and teach the high school religion class and then attend church. After that we always share a meal together with family. By the time I get home…
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What a sinner?
Luke 5:27-32 I did not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners. Students we have made it four days! Today reading this verse I always chuckle. We are so like the Pharisees. We want to point out all the dusty old sinners. Or say things like, “Why are you hanging out with those…
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Fasting
True Fasting Isaiah 58:5-9 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you…
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40 days with Sal
SAL aka Petunia Pig Psalm 51 (50):12 Create a pure heart for me, O God; / renew a steadfast spirit within me. Yesterday we kicked off our Lenten season with Ash Wednesday. Remember students we are focusing on our hearts. Did you do your homework? As I read and studied this morning this verse popped…
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Forty Days with Sal: Rend Your Heart
Rend your hearts, not your garments. “Even now, says the Lord, / return to me with your whole heart, / with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; / Rend your hearts, not your garments, / and return to the Lord, your God.” Happy Ash Wednesday! I reflected all day today about our forty blog adventure. Ash Wednesday is a time that we give up or offer…
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Hypocrite
In my mind today, I’ve had so much going on since January. All of it hasn’t been pleasant. I know you have been thinking Ms. Alley must be on a sabbatical. I promise I’m going to try to write more using the new technology. I’ve been avoiding it because of my lack of strength…
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Peace in 2019
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. —John 14: 27 In my mind today, I’m thinking of the new year and all it will hold. I want it to hold peace for us all. Peace in our homes. Peace for the sick and elderly. Peace for the neglected children. Peace. The Christmas…
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Advent Journey
Advent Journey Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak, Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God… Isaiah 35: 3-4 In my mind today, I’m going through lists: bills, cards, church events, and gifts list. As I perused my Amazon app trying…
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