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Words from the Stable

Posted on December 24, 2018December 11, 2018 by Matt Tullos

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The Art of Pondering

Posted on December 11, 2018December 12, 2018 by Matt Tullos

“But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2:19b Advent is to ponder. If you don’t take time to turn everything off and ponder sometime this week, you are left with all that is temporal, ordinary and fleeting about Christmas. Stop and ponder. Luke tells us in his gospel that more »

Mary’s Little Boy

Posted on April 11, 2014May 11, 2016 by Matt Tullos

And Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart– This phrase has arrested me for years, because pondering to me in a sense is a form of worship. To ponder, in a sense is to daydream about God. A time when the world stands still in quiet moments. There is very little more »