scripture | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:36:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg scripture | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 How Can a Christian Blogger keep Fresh and Green Without Burnout? https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/04/can-blogger-keep-fresh-green-without-burnout/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/04/can-blogger-keep-fresh-green-without-burnout/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:01:16 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61185 Image Credit Friends from America mentioned that they no longer attend the Williamsburg, Virginia Church that we’d met them at. The preacher had a knack of cutting to the heart of the matter, of looking at the things Jesus said in a new, startling way. “Oh, why did you leave,” I asked surprised. “Well, after […]

The post How Can a Christian Blogger keep Fresh and Green Without Burnout? first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/04/can-blogger-keep-fresh-green-without-burnout/feed/ 6 In which I am Learning to Master Anger https://anitamathias.com/2013/05/03/in-which-i-am-learning-to-master-anger/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/05/03/in-which-i-am-learning-to-master-anger/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 10:57:25 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42929 (Reuters/Mike Stone) 14 years ago, I was furious with my husband Roy for some just-discovered crime or misdemeanour, and since he was teaching at the moment (in those pre-mobile phone days), and I couldn’t call him, I called our pastor. (No, I am not joking!) Had Roy been at the end of a phone, it […]

The post In which I am Learning to Master Anger first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/05/03/in-which-i-am-learning-to-master-anger/feed/ 4 We Need Scripture to Help us Make Decisions. But we need the Spirit too. We need Jesus https://anitamathias.com/2012/10/18/beyond-the-letter-of-scripture-we-need-the-spirit-to-help-us-interpret-the-word-we-need-jesus/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/10/18/beyond-the-letter-of-scripture-we-need-the-spirit-to-help-us-interpret-the-word-we-need-jesus/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:25:37 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=33650  Beyond the sacred page I seek Thee, Lord; My spirit pants for Thee, O living Word!                                                           Mary Lathbury, 1877  39 You study[c]the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life, (John 5:39) Jesus says to the Pharisees. […]

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