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May 8, 2020
2 min

Grounded 8

One strange (if inconsequential) impact of Covid-19 are ‘virtual’ running races. We who have preregistered for, say, half-marathons, are...

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Andrew Comiskey

May 4, 2020
2 min

Corporate Handover

Aging cuts both ways: yes, we at Desert Stream Ministries are now 40 years wiser, but also stubborn and calcified in ways that can inhibi...

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Andrew Comiskey

May 1, 2020
2 min

Grounded 7

Authority arises from intimacy. And intimacy is about spending time with the beloved, lovers lingering together until… Who knows? How lon...

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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 13, 2020
2 min

A Thousand Seeds

‘What you sow does not come to life unless it dies’ (1 Cor. 15:36). Spring sings jazzy harmonies and awakens the dawn; ok, birds do, and ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 10, 2020
2 min

Grounded 4

‘Many are awed by His miracles; few accept the shame of His Cross.’ Thomas a Kempis From the beginning of His adult ministry, Jesus set H...

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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 6, 2020
3 min

Shifting the Atmosphere

by Marco Casanova “Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.” GK Chesterton Shifting the atmosphere involves eac...

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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 3, 2020
2 min

Grounded 3

A Lent unlike any other: rather than beef up devotion, I find myself reducing spiritual intake. Much of the time I find myself gaping at ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 19, 2020
2 min

Grounded 1

My dreams reveal one frustrated guy. I wake up half-smiling at the heart’s antics: I can’t get out of the room or parking lot, no exit, s...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 9, 2020
3 min

Advocacy, Not Acrimony

‘I will not leave you as orphans…The Advocate, the Holy Spirit…will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 2, 2020
2 min

Softening Hardened Hearts

‘Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.’ (Heb. 3:13) At ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 24, 2020
3 min

Loving Pastors?

OK. I’ve got a great pastor. Father Justin is orthodox and admittedly human: richly so, kind of noble but not self-important. His confide...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 3, 2020
2 min

Best Group Ever

I kid you not. After 40 years of leading Living Waters groups, I just finished the best one ever. These twenty weeks rolled out like a dr...

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Andrew Comiskey

Jan 6, 2020
3 min

Silent Word, Shining

‘Shine like lights in the universe, as you hold out the Word of life’ (Phil. 2: 15, 16). A season of silence ends: now back to airports, ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Dec 30, 2019
3 min

Silent Word, Pleading

‘The true revolution comes from silence’ (Robert Cardinal Sarah). ‘How silently, how silently the wondrous Gift is given.’ Yet Christmas ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Dec 23, 2019
3 min

Trust

‘Advent means a heart that is awake and ready, which does not let itself become bitter and deadened by hard blows but stays awake and awa...

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Andrew Comiskey

Dec 9, 2019
2 min

Fearing the One I Love

Our trouble lies not in heavy-handed religion but in banal lullabies that assure us that God is love, all love, and only wants our best—‘...

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Andrew Comiskey

Dec 2, 2019
2 min

Thanksgiving 2: (Inter)Personal Best

For the last 30 years, I’ve pounded the pavement as a long-distance runner. I ran the LA Marathon in 1989, beat my training partner, and ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 13, 2019
3 min

Kingdom Clash 2: Fighting for France

Until our weakness becomes ground that drinks rain from heaven, it may well invite the reign of hell. Such is the case for persons with g...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 11, 2019
3 min

Kingdom Clash 1: Fighting City Hall

We met in front of City Hall next to the Lincoln statue, featuring Abe and his son Tad. Fitting. Here we were, Christians of all stripes,...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 4, 2019
3 min

St. Katherine

All Saint’s Day reminds us of faithful ones who went before us and made a way for our faithfulness. I celebrated this feast of gratitude ...

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