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Year B Proper 5: bike racks and blasphemy
I have a bit of an independent streak, so the other day when the car dealership called to say that the car was fixed, I didn’t want to have to wait for someone else to take me over there to … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy, Genesis 3:8-15, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mark 3:20-35, temptation, unforgiveable sin
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Trinity Sunday, 2015
I am not a maths person, per se. I am basically numerate: when I worked in the deli, I could make change without hesitation or error or the use of fancy modern electronics. But higher mathematics were not my area … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, born again, God, John 3:1-17, relationship, Romans 8:12-17, spirit of adoption, Trinity
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Pentecost dreaming
What happens [asks the poet] to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Cleveland, dream, dream deferred, Langston Hughes, Michael Brelo, Pentecost, Rachel G. Hackenburg
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Year B Easter 7: outside agitators and inside voices
The leaders in Jerusalem, religious and secular, were anticipating with no small degree of anxiety next weekend’s Festival of Weeks, or Pentecost, so called because it fell fifty (pente) days after Passover; a full week of weeks since death was … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Acts 1:15-26, Christ, Cleveland, Incarnation, John 17:6-19, Michael Brelo, Pentecost, Tamir Rice
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Year B Easter 6: water and blood, a Mothers Day proclamation
“This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.” I don’t … Continue reading
Year B Easter 5: abide with me
I can’t help but think that to judge God’s will by the outcome of our prayers that way is a pretty dangerous sort of reverse-engineering. Continue reading
Year B Easter 4: What’s in a name?
Eric Garner. Freddie Gray. Freddie Mercury. Machiavelli. What do these names mean to you? Try Jerry Falwell. Billy Graham. Denzel Washington. George Washington. John Paul II. John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Mother Theresa. Mary. Then, of course, there’s Jesus Christ of … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Acts 5:1-12, Good Shepherd Sunday, John 10, Name of God, Name of Jesus, Year B Easter 4
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Year B Easter 3: joy and disbelieving
Did you ever feel as though you came in halfway through the story? I mean, that’s not always a bad thing: in film school, they teach this technique called in media res for opening sequences, meaning start in the middle … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 3:1-19, doubt, Holy Spirit, in media res, Jesus of Nazareth, Luke 24:36b-48, Peter, power
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Damien and Marianne of Molokai (and Robert Louis Stevenson of Scotland)
Jesus answered, ‘Go and tell John what you hear and see:
that the blind see beauty, the lame leap for joy, the deaf are sung lullabies, the lepers are loved, a dead faith finds new life and poor souls have good news brought to them.
And blessed is anyone who takes no offence at me.’ Continue reading
Year B Easter 2: that our joy may be complete
These fifty days of Easter are a strange and troubling time, when the risen Christ walks abroad, taking his disciples by surprise on the road, by the water, behind closed doors, murmuring of Peace. They are days when the signs of God are all around us, the signs of resurrection, calling us into the good news that the kingdom of God has drawn near. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 John 1-2:2, God-sightings, Jesus, John 20:19-31, testimony, Thomas, VBS
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