Author: Nanette Sawyer

Bible Basics 1

Here's a little peek into what we're up to at Wicker Park Grace. Two weeks at the Sunday Gatherings focused on Bible Basics. Why? Because people have been asking questions like the ones included here.

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“Yes, Virginia, there is…”

Sermon delivered 12/27/09 at Wicker Park Grace Reflection (transcribed)  The Escape to Egypt                         (Matthew 2:12-16)  12 The wise men, having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, left for their own country by another road. 13 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream …

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Self-portrait :: Story Cycle :: Worth Remembering

Well, I am down for the count with this cold/flu everyone has. So instead of watching TV from bed, I worked on an art project that the Wicker Park Grace Art Forum peeps have been encouraging me to do. I’ve shared at the Forum some work I’ve done with collage and digital manipulation of photos, …

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Mid-night Tweets (Micro-blogging)

It’s the middle of the night.Woke up thinking of all the ways I am imperfect. But this is the nature of being human, right? Have to forgive. about 15 hours ago from Twitterrific This is why we need each other to love each other.To say that we are *good enough* to be loved.Every mistake feels …

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Patterns of Hope

I was very disturbed to read in the news a couple of weeks ago about a Census worker found murdered in Kentucky. (You can google it. It’s gruesome.) The white census worker was found hanging from a tree in a graveyard. And this week an African American friend of mine told me that there is a …

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