Contentment
By Elizabeth Prata The face of discontent. EPrata photo There’s a lot of discontent out there. I’m speaking both of the Christian world, and in the secular world. We know pagans are alw…
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Disorder in the churches!
By Elizabeth Prata Pulpit 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 says The women are to keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says. Bu…
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Tents and tentmaking
By Elizabeth Prata The Lord has arranged my life so that now, though I have been a classroom teacher in the past, I am now a teacher’s aide. I am grateful because I still get to teach kids, b…
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Falling into a pit!
By Elizabeth Prata The Bible talks of falling into a pit quite often, when you really pay attention. I got interested in pits, lol. What is a pit? “A hole in the ground, a cistern for water, …
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Do I Have to Live Uncomfortably to Be a Real Christian?
The essence of Christianity is loving your neighbor. Suburbia needs loving neighbors reaching out in quiet ways just as much as the poor need help in Calcutta or the lost need help in Afghanistan. The daily grind of being a faithful witness for Jesus occurs all over the world, in jungles, mountain villages, cities, farming communities, and suburban plats.
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Lent, food rules, and liberty
By Elizabeth Prata Romans 14:13-23, about food may seem archaic, because Christians have been released from Hebrew food rules for 2000 years. But food rules have been going strong in the Catholic f…
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Conspiracy theories: Hall of mirrors, or lifted veil; your choice
By Elizabeth Prata But if the ministry of death, in letters having been engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the g…
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Beth Moore doesn’t speak for the church
By Elizabeth Prata Beth Moore speaking at a race conference at Baylor in 2022. Just out is Beth Moore’s third memoir, “All My Knotted Up Life.” (The first two were Feathers from M…
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The fading glory, the glory that will never fade
By Elizabeth Prata EPrata photo The fading glory of a flowerThe grass, scorched under the sunand withering before our eyesNest, filled with tweets but now emptyThe temporal nature of richesSliding,…
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A saying that sounds pious but isn’t- “Let Go and Let God”
By Elizabeth Prata Jesus took issue with the Pharisees and Scribes because they had become whitewashed tombs. (Matthew 23:27). This means that they were sick with sin on the inside and were only do…
