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Friday, July 11, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "Orientation Revisited" By laneglaze @ 1:19 PM :: 88 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional Students, friends, alumni and supporters, Today marks the end of the summer orientation sessions here at Clemson University.  For the last eight years I have spent several weeks of my summer meeting hundreds of students and parents filled with excitement (and trepidation) about what was before them.  In some cases, I met students during orientation who have become life-long friends and faithful supporters of our ongoing ministry here.  In other cases, I met stude... Read More..

Sunday, June 01, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "Annual Conference Reflections" By laneglaze @ 6:35 PM :: 89 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional Note: Beginning tonight, United Methodists from throughout South Carolina will be gathering for what we call "Annual Conference" - a time of worship, conversation and "business" each year.  In preparation for Annual Conference each year, I (and other ministries supported by the Annual Conference) am asked to submit a report.  Typically, my report talks about what we have done over the last year.  This year I decided to take a different appro... Read More..

Friday, March 14, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "March Madness" By laneglaze @ 9:05 PM :: 170 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional Help, God – the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help! Listen hard! Open my ears! Listen to my cries for mercy.   If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, Who could stand a chance? As it turns out, forgiveness if your habit, And that’s why you’re worshiped.   I pray to God – my life a prayer – And wait for what he’ll say and do. My life’s on the line before God, my Lord, Waiting and watching till morning... Read More..

Saturday, March 08, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "Tar Heel Blues" By laneglaze @ 10:57 AM :: 167 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional Tar Heel Blues   Jesus wept. Gospel of John 11:35 On a day around Clemson when all Tiger faithful are asked to wear orange, I opted yesterday morning for the Tar Heel blue polo in my closet.  I know, strange thing for a graduate of Duke who's living in Clemson to do, but Tar Heel blue has been on my mind since watching the news Thursday night and hearing about the violent murder of the senior student body president, Eve Marie Carson. A true college town, Ch... Read More..

Saturday, February 16, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "A 'Meddling' Gospel" By laneglaze @ 9:40 AM :: 143 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Luke 18:18, NIV   Note:  I have found that Luke's Gospel is the toughest to preach and teach in the congregations that I have served and know well, churches mostly filled with educated, financially comfortable folks.  After spending Thursday morning in a Bible study wrestling with the demands of the Gospel of Luke, the following satirical letter to the editor ... Read More..

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "Big, Super, Fat Tuesday" By laneglaze @ 6:10 PM :: 129 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional At once, the Spirit sent him out into the desert, and he was in the desert for forty days, being tempted by Satan.  He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. Mark 1:12-13, NIV Well, the big day has finally arrived.  No, I'm not talking about National Signing Day for college football - you rabid Tiger fans are going to have to wait another 24 hours before you know for sure who Tommy Bowden has inked for the coming season.  And no, CNN and Fox News jun... Read More..

Friday, January 25, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "Ends and Means" By laneglaze @ 4:40 PM :: 131 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 4:17, KJV   After a full week of various conversations, bible study groups and other activities, I find myself on Friday morning contemplating a philosophy that has long been attributed to the 15th century diplomat, playwright, Niccolo Machiavelli: the ends justify the means.  But why? My week began on Monday morning doing what I have... Read More..

Friday, January 18, 2008 CW Weekly Devotional - "Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something TRUE" By laneglaze @ 11:08 AM :: 138 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional Like so many other things surrounding weddings, I remember hearing the following saying for the first time in the weeks preceding my own nuptials in 1988: Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue. My future mother-in-law explained that this was another of those old wedding traditions that had been passed down through the generations.  On the day of her wedding, a bride was to wear something old, new, borrowed and blue - for good luck, I believe she ... Read More..

Monday, December 10, 2007 CW Weekly Devotional - "Reclaiming Christmas" By laneglaze @ 9:58 PM :: 168 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:8-11, KJV   Several years ago I read an edit... Read More..

Friday, November 16, 2007 CW Weekly Devotional - "Sweet Revenge" By laneglaze @ 10:51 AM :: 150 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Weekly Devotional Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge, I will repay," says the Lord. Romans 12:19, NIV "Sweet revenge!  Sweet revenge!  Today we gonna get some sweet revenge!" Twenty years later, those words still ring clear in my ears.  We were in the pregame warm-ups against an undermatched team that we had defeated soundly in a baseball game just a few weeks earlier.  An opposi... Read More..

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