God digs you. When no one else notices you – when no one else has the time to bother – God searches you...

“O LORD, you have searched me and known me…”

How wonderful – and how fearful – it is to be known by God.

The Psalmist says in Psalm 139, “O LORD, you have searched me and known me.” 

“You have searched me” – the word can have the sense of digging into, of drilling down.  “Lord, you have excavated me.”  One person translates it, “Lord, You dig me – you dig me, Lord.” 

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The “set-apartness”, geographical isolation, and time demands of congregational life can make rural ministry a lonesome vocation...

The first Rural Ministry Colloquium of the semester is coming up this Thursday, September 23. Be sure to join us for lunch and a powerful discussion.

September 23, 2010
Ministry in the Lonesome Valley
12:25-1:20 p.m.
059 Langford (Centenary), Duke Divinity School

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