These Numbered Days

The man sat by the entrance of his home. His skin was loose and brown, weathered by the steadily accumulating years. The moments of his life stretched around him like a spreading pool of rich green olive oil on a table top.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 10, 2020Theme XXVI, Scriptural Imagination, Andrea LingleComment

Radiant and Unfading

Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 10, 2020Theme XXVI, Scriptural Imagination, Andrea LingleComment

Variety Vacationland

I am a native North Carolinian and, though I am not as old as the saying is, I remember North Carolina’s logo, “Variety Vacationland.”

Wisdom for the Way, SpotlightMissional Wisdom FoundationOctober 27, 2020Voices from Together Magazine, Theme XXV, Kathleen Leftwich, Launch & LeadComment

Something to Feel

I have spent a majority of my adult life in a fifteen passenger van going from state to state playing country music. I would not trade one thing for my years on the road, nor the hundreds of thousands of miles I drove in that time.

Wisdom for the Way, SpotlightMissional Wisdom FoundationOctober 20, 2020Chris Duggins, Haw Creek Commons, Voices from Together Magazine, Theme XXVComment

My Call

The context I am serving in is a long-standing Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) church that is in the midst of a lot of transition.

Wisdom for the Way, SpotlightMissional Wisdom FoundationOctober 20, 2020Launch & Lead, Voices from Together Magazine, Theme XXVComment

Neighborhood Church

Long ago in the small, calm city of Atlanta, two churches had thriving ministries in their neighborhoods.

Spotlight, Devotional, Wisdom for the WayMissional Wisdom FoundationOctober 6, 2020Theme XXV, Voices from Together Magazine, Together Magazine, Neighborhood ChurchComment

Tuinue Kipato Chetu, Tuboreshe Maisha Tetu!

Since 2010, thirteen new Methodist Churches have been born in Northern Tanzania. Most of these churches were in areas of extreme poverty, domestic violence, and hunger where children regularly died of preventable diseases.

Spotlight, Devotional, Wisdom for the WayMissional Wisdom FoundationSeptember 29, 2020Theme XXV, Voices from Together Magazine, Together Magazine, Davis Rhodes JrComment

Back to the Table

Most people would think that because I am a self-taught chef who operates a catering business, the table is all about the food for me.

Wisdom for the Way, Spotlight, DevotionalMissional Wisdom FoundationSeptember 22, 2020Theme XXV, Voices from Together Magazine, Together Magazine, Rhonda Sweet, The Mix, The Mix Coworking, The Mix KitchenComment

Pilgrim Reflections

A lot of questions come at you post-pilgrimage. The easy ones are asked by polite friends that want you to know they noticed you were gone for a bit. “Have a good time? Glad you went?” Easy. “I had a wonderful time. I’m very glad I went.”

Wisdom for the Way, Spotlight, DevotionalMissional Wisdom FoundationSeptember 15, 2020Theme XXV, Voices from Together Magazine, Jim Hunter, Together MagazineComment

The Generosity of Grace

“When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.”

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleSeptember 8, 2020Into a Reluctant Sunrise, Simple Incarnate, Incarnational Study, Theme XXIV, Casey Arden, Andrea LingleComment

The Richness of Sorrow

“Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleSeptember 1, 2020Into a Reluctant Sunrise, Simple Incarnate, Incarnational Study, Theme XXIV, Casey Arden, Andrea LingleComment

A Broken Moon

But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”

John 20:24–25

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleAugust 25, 2020Into a Reluctant Sunrise, Simple Incarnate, Incarnational Study, Theme XXIV, Casey Arden, Andrea LingleComment

Unrecognized

Mary turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?”

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleAugust 18, 2020Into a Reluctant Sunrise, Simple Incarnate, Incarnational Study, Theme XXIV, Casey Arden, Andrea LingleComment

That We May Die

After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him…”

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleAugust 11, 2020Into a Reluctant Sunrise, Simple Incarnate, Incarnational Study, Theme XXIV, Casey Arden, Andrea Lingle Comment

Sickness Unto Death

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleAugust 4, 2020Into a Reluctant Sunrise, Simple Incarnate, Incarnational Study, Theme XXIVComment

The Community of Grace

Through learning to love each other in communities, we live into our nature as the reflection of the image of God, fulfilling the desire of God, which draws us closer to God.