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An Inside-Outside Game

May 14, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

PREACHING TEXTS Acts 17:22-31 John 14:15-21 “Streetlights hide the glimmer of lesser stars” by Bryce J. Christensen Streetlights hide the glimmer of lesser stars. My weak telescope wobbles on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: god, Inside-Outside, Paul

“Attention is the beginning of devotion”

November 20, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Text for Preaching "Gratitude" by Mary Oliver What did you notice? The dew-snail; the low-flying sparrow; the bat, on the wind, in the dark; big-chested geese, in the V of sleekest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: attention, Devotion, god

If I were a prophet…

July 11, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Reflection on readings for 7 Pentecost (Revised Common Lectionary) YouTube video version follows the text When we have stories that feature John the Baptist like we do today, I repeatedly feel the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Further, god, Past, Present

“From Blossoms” to bread and wine – an Easter season reflection

May 2, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Sermon Text: “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43012/from-blossoms A video version of this sermon follows the text From blossoms - those wafer-thin pedals of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Blossoms, god, Li-young Lee, Veil

An Overgrown Metaphor

June 19, 2019 By Cam Miller 10 Comments

My neighbor’s peonies blossomed long before mine and are bigger and more vibrant. What gives? Perhaps she is better than me, and that means her peonies are superior too. I mean, maybe she has done … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: god, metaphor, religion

Evil Part Two: We don’t want to know what absence would feel like

December 16, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Presence…God has to be present in order to influence change. If God were not present - absent - our experience of life would be radically different. Strangely, presence and absence can be equally … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Evil, god, Hope, Presence

Evil Part One: An Email thread post-Paris

December 14, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is a two-part rant that probably does not belong the week before Christmas, but neither do mass shootings or national political leaders vomiting their own ugliness on the rest of us belong in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Evil, god, Paris Attacks, Presence

We won’t encounter God in the past or the future

September 21, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Summer arrived in mid-August. Perhaps it was the severity and length of last winter that so raised the expectations for summer that even the most sublime growing season could not fill the empty space … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: god, mindfulness, spiritual practice

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