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The Balm of Gilead Yet Remains
Spiritual resilience is critical for thriving amidst chaos. We’re all going to have to surf the change. Let’s do it together, with a Heavenly Father who loves us and is never moved, by anything....
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A Prevailing Presence
Psalm 48For Sunday, July 4th, 2021Year B, Proper 9 The Grand Tetons, Jackson Hole, Wyoming Have you ever been emotionally enthralled with a view of majesty? For me, it was seeing the Teton mountains...
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Be Careful What You Wish For (1 Sam. 8)
https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55721 For Sunday, June 6, 20212nd Sunday After PentecostYear B, Proper 5 Was there ever a time in your life as a kid when you wanted...
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The Taste of Freedom (Rom. 8:12-17)
This stone stele was erected along one of the paths that lead to Santiago de Compostela, an important pilgrimage site. Santiago de Compostela, Spain....
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The Church in the World
Vincent van Gogh, “The Church at Auvers”, 1890, Musée d’Orsay, Paris John 17:6-19For Sunday, May 16th, 20217th Sunday of Easter, Year B This is a very significant post for me. I named this blog...
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For there the Lord commanded the blessing
Psalm 133For Sunday, April 11, 2021Second Sunday of Easter, Year B Mount Hermon in Northern Israel (https://www.elal.com/magazine/en/portfolio-items/travel/ideas-info/mount-hermon/) Have you ever had...
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NOW I get it
Acts 10:34-43For Sunday, April 4, 2021Resurrection of the Lord, Year B The Apostle Peter was a passionate man. This sometimes got him in trouble, like when, in front of a charcoal fire, he denied...
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Quiet Committed Resolve
Albrecht Altdorfer, “Crucifixion with Mary and John”, 1515-16, Staatliche Gemäldegalerie zu Kassel, Kassel, Germany. Isaiah 50:4-9aFor Sunday, March 28, 2021Liturgy of the Passion, Year B How do we...
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A Mystery Man Who Matters
Heb. 5:5-10For Sunday, March 21, 2021Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year B I haven’t posted in a long time but am resuming again! If you are a returning reader to this blog would love to hear from you! If you...
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Who defines reality?
1 Cor. 6:12-20 For Sunday, January 14, 2018 Second Sunday After The Epiphany, Year B We live in a culture that wants to elevate self as having the right to define it’s own reality. The problem is that...
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A Thanksgiving Day Blessing
We live in a nation of discord. So it was when President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday on October 3, 1863. The encouragement he found then is the same encouragement...
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The story of Thanksgiving
One of the things I love about the holidays is encouraging the family to reflect on where each holiday came from historically so that we can let it shape our mutual story going forward. Here is David...
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Emotion: Power For Change
Things not working out the way you hoped? God has given us a nuclear reactor to power change: emotion. Ivan Aivazovsky, Wave (Волна), 1889, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia I took a course this...
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Embrace Your Story
Every one of us is a human story in the making. There are three simple questions we can ask ourselves to embrace our stories and propel ourselves forward. Wassily Kandinsky, “Yellow Red Blue”, 1925,...
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Stewarding Our Cultural Influence
Many of us think deep down that we’ve lost the culture and there is nothing we can do about it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every Tower of Babel stood against the truth will fall. What...
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Leading a prevailing life
Gen. 32:22-31 For Sunday, August 6, 2017 Year A, Proper 13 Do you ever wonder if you will prevail in life? Jacob’s encounter with God at Peniel in Gen. 32 shows us how it’s done. “Jacob Wrestling with...
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Under whose banner?
Each of us ride under a banner that defines and animates us. As Christians, the banner we ride under is the simple phrase, “He is risen!” Colossians 3:1-4 For Sunday, April 16, 2017 Year A, Easter,...
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Book Review: Dick Staub, The Culturally Savvy Christian
The power of popular culture to catechize us is incredibly strong. We will all be catechized by something. Will it be by our culture, or by the gospel? Dick Staub points the way for us to become...
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Want to make a great name?
Genesis 12:1-4a For Sunday, March 12, 2017 Second Sunday in Lent Want to make a great name for yourself? Surprise: it’s not about us. Making a truly great name is all about aligning with God’s...
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Cattywampus
Psalm 32 For Sunday, March 5, 2017 First Sunday in Lent Left untended our lives have a tendency to go cattywampus. Psalm 32 is a Lenten invitation to get back into alignment. A cabin crying for...
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