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Joyce Day
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I’m a retired UMC pastor who wants to do good in the world and keep growing in my relationship with Yeshua the Christ
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What a True Life Leader Looks Like
We are entering the second week of Advent, that season of waiting and watching.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The Mountain of True Life
Last week, we explored the importance of accepting our Creator’s beautiful weekly gift of Sabbath.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Take a Break--You Need It!
Of all the instructions found in the Ten Commandments, none is as slippery as the fourth:
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November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Loving Your Neighbor
Yeshua said that all the laws (including the Ten Commandments) could be summed up in just one law—the law of love.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Honoring the Way of True Life
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Honoring the Way of True Life
How? By Living It!
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November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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A New Look at the Good Life
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A New Look at the Good Life
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at what it means to know Creator as True Life.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Eating from the Tree of Life
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Eating from the Tree of Life
Recently, I went looking for a rug for my newly installed floor in my study.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The Way, the Truth, the Life
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The Way, the Truth, the Life
An invitation to enter an open door
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October 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Yeshua as Atonement
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Yeshua as Atonement
Or rather as At-One-Ment
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October 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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When Things Change
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When Things Change
Photo by Joyce Day: Living Water—Never Static, Always Moving
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September 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Receiving Mystery
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Receiving Mystery
Photo by Joyce Day
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September 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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What's In a Name?
More Than You Might Imagine!
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September 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The Way of Life
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The Way of Life
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), Yeshua speaks of two paths—the narrow path that leads to life and the wide road that leads to death.
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September 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Choosing a Firm Foundation
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Choosing a Firm Foundation
It only took eight months, but we now come to the end of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7).
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August 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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What Fruit Are You Producing?
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What Fruit Are You Producing?
Honestly, it depresses me what passes for Christianity among many today.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Tarnished Gold and Broad Avenues
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Tarnished Gold and Broad Avenues
I am writing this post just a few hours after reading the news report that Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to deal with crime and homelessness in the nation’s capital.
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August 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Ask, Seek, Knock, Trust
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Ask, Seek, Knock, Trust
Have you ever played a practical joke on someone?
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August 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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You Gotta Know When to Fold 'Em
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You Gotta Know When to Fold 'Em
Photo by Joyce Day, Camp Chestnut Ridge Pig
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August 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Timber!
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Timber!
Matthew is wrapping up Yeshua’s Sermon on the Mount in chapter 7, and I get the feeling that the author is pulling together all the last bits and pieces of Yeshua’s teachings that he feels are most im...
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July 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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"My Precious!"
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"My Precious!"
If you are a fan of The Lord of the Rings movies, you will immediately recognize the figure above and the meaning of this post’s title.
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July 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Whose It All About, Alfie?
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Whose It All About, Alfie?
**This post returns to my exploration of the Sermon on the Mount as found in Matthew 5-7.
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July 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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For those of us grieving rather than celebrating this Fourth
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A Prayer for Help
In a Time of Great Evil
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July 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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You Want Me to Love Who??!!
I can’t even begin to tell you how inadequate I feel as I sit down at my computer today to tackle this passage from Matthew 5:43-48. Inadequate because this is such a pivotal moment in Yeshua’s Sermon...
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June 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM