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Welcome Dreaded Momma 500 500 Andrew Hicks

Welcome Dreaded Momma

Sooo I have invited my lovely wife to join the blogosphere. I have been telling her she should put her voice out there for quite some time now and she…

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Written in the Stars: The Christological Function of Astral Imagery in the Book of Revelation 1024 683 Andrew Hicks

Written in the Stars: The Christological Function of Astral Imagery in the Book of Revelation

This is the research paper I recently wrote for my seminar class on the book of Revelation Revelation is fundamentally an astral prophecy. Everything that happens in the heart of…

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An Ascension Hymn 800 1024 Andrew Hicks

An Ascension Hymn

1 See, the Conqu’ror mounts in triumph; see the King in royal state, riding on the clouds, his chariot, to his heav’nly palace gate. Hear the choir of angel voices…

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Prayers for Wandering 683 1024 Andrew Hicks

Prayers for Wandering

I have been wandering and growing lately. I think it is for my good when all is said and done, but it is painful in the process. God is not…

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Feminist & Womanist Interpretation of Scripture and Theology 150 150 Andrew Hicks

Feminist & Womanist Interpretation of Scripture and Theology

I have greatly benefitted from reading people who are different than me. This includes the voices of women. This is a bibliography of Feminist and Womanist voices in biblical interpretation…

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The Transfiguration: An Introduction 695 1024 Andrew Hicks

The Transfiguration: An Introduction

The Explicit Accounts The Transfiguration is a key event in the life of Jesus Christ. The scene is recounted explicitly only in the Synoptic gospels (i.e. Matthew, Mark, and Luke,…

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Lent 2023 1024 576 Andrew Hicks

Lent 2023

This is the landing page for my 2023 Lenten sermon series. I have never preached the Lenten season before and so I am excited to learn and I anticipate that…

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Ruthlessly And Relentlessly Personal 150 150 Andrew Hicks

Ruthlessly And Relentlessly Personal

We call our Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, “DJ.” [For those of you who are Parks and Recreation fans, yes we named it after Tom Haverford’s Roomba who is affectionally called…

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The Lenten Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian 780 639 Andrew Hicks

The Lenten Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian

Introduction  This beautiful little prayer and accompanying exercise is an important and classic prayer used in Eastern Orthodox observance of the Lenten season. I first discovered it while reading Great Lent:…

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Fasting: An Introduction 150 150 Andrew Hicks

Fasting: An Introduction

It is very sad that the modern Church – mainly of any nondenominational or evangelical variety – has completely forgotten and neglected the spiritual discipline of fasting. There are many…

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