Author: Sweet Tea and Front Porch Storyteller
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Born Guilty… or Becoming Human?
Curious Pilgrim — Part 1 A Reflection on Sin, Choice, and the Journey of Becoming Introduction All my life, I have lived with a quiet tension. The tension between what I was taught…and what I have experienced.Between Scripture, tradition, reason, and the life I have actually lived. I remember sitting in Systematic Theology classes, listening…
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The Curious Pilgrim
Is Truth in the Eye of the Beholder? A Signature Reflection on Epistle to the Romans 7:13–25 🌅 Opening: A Question That Will Not Let Me Go There are questions that come and go…and then there are questions that stay with you. This is one that has walked with me most of my life: Is…
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🌿 The Older I Get: Becoming Whole in a Fragmented World
There are some songs that entertain us.Some that stir memories.And then there are songs that quietly sit beside us and say, “This… this is what life is really about.” “The Older I Get” by Alan Jackson is one of those songs. It doesn’t shout.It doesn’t preach.It simply reflects. And in that reflection, it reveals something…
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✨ The Curious Pilgrim
“Dominion, Voice, and the Gift: Rethinking Sin and Righteousness” 📖 Today’s Readings 🌿 A Pilgrim’s Question Today’s readings pull us into a tension many of us have felt: What is sin… really? And who decides? You named the struggle honestly: And yet, Romans 6 speaks with clarity and weight: So how do we make sense…
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🌿 The Curious Pilgrim
Covenant, Baptism, and the Struggle to Live Free 📖 Daily Office Readings Psalm 95 • Jeremiah 11:1–8, 14–20 • Romans 6:1–11 • John 8:33–47 🎶 A Call to Begin: Singing Before Understanding “Come, let us sing to the Lord…” The day begins not with answers—but with worship. Before theology, before doctrine, before trying to figure…
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The Curious Pilgrim — Daily Office Reflection
Truth That Sets Us FreePsalm 42 · Jeremiah 10:11–24 · Romans 5:12–21 · John 8:21–32 A Soul That Longs for What Is Real “As the deer longs for the water brooks,so longs my soul for you, O God.” — Psalm 42 There is something deep within us that knows when life is not aligned with…
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The Curious Pilgrim — When Suffering Speaks: Mercy, Truth, and the Way of Peace
Opening Reflection There are moments in life when suffering feels like an interruption—something that should not be. We resist it, question it, and often try to explain it away. Yet the Scriptures for today—Psalm 85, Isaiah 52:7–12, and Hebrews 2:5–10—do not avoid suffering. Instead, they place it at the very center of God’s redemptive story.…
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🌿 The Fine Line, The Narrow Way, and the Fruit We Bear
A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on the Life We Are Choosing 🎵 Listening for Truth in Unexpected Places There are moments when truth comes to us not only through Scripture, but through a song, a memory, or a quiet stirring within. When Wayne Watson sings about “The Fine Line,” I hear the reality that life is…
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🌈 Curious Pilgrim
Freedom, Faith, and the Courage to Be 🎶 When a Song Becomes a Mirror There are songs we hear…and then there are songs that hear us. Freedom! ’90 by George Michael is one of those songs for me. It doesn’t just play in the background—it pulls something forward.Something honest. Something unsettled. Something long buried beneath…
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Are These the Worst of Times… or Just Clearer Times?
A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on Division, Faith, and Following Jesus Daily Office Readings:John 5:19–29 • Romans 2:12–24 • Jeremiah 4:9–10, 19–28 • Psalm 71 A Pilgrim’s Honest Question Lately, I have found myself asking a question that I suspect many are quietly asking: Are these the worst of times… or are we simply seeing more…
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