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A compelling devotional by Day1 host Peter Wallace, designed to help people of all ages connect meaningfully with God as revealed in the Psalms.
Topic Features About Friendship
When Someone Needs You, Just Stay
The Rev. Dr. Thomas Lane Butts (UMC)Several years ago a friend sent me this story. I have since seen slightly different versions of it from time to time, always without attribution. Some stories stick in your mind like a cockle burr. This is one of them. It is a good example of the kind of virtue of which an old friend of ours spoke some two thousand years ago. It seems appropriate for the beginning of Lent. Read it all the way to the end.
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Spiritual Friendships
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4
All Saints' Day
October 31, 2010
The Rev. Glenn Ethridge (UMC)One of my favorite aspects of ordained ministry is the friendships developed over the years. As a United Methodist pastoral family who served in itinerant ministry for 23 years, we have developed a network of friends across our conference that feeds our need for social contact and our need for what I call spiritual friendship. Spiritual friendship is more than acquaintance; it is an ongoing relationship in which we nurture one another's souls. In spiritual friendships, divine affairs and human affairs intersect in such a way as to create moments of grace. Although the Apostle Paul uses different language, he often speaks of spiritual friendship. When he refers to Christians he has met in his missionary journeys, he calls them brothers and sisters in the faith. He expresses deep appreciation and affection for these spiritual friends, and so do I.
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