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Year C Proper 12: What is the world coming to?
What is the world coming to? How many times have we had to ask ourselves that question over the past few months, the past few years? When I told people abroad on vacation where I came from, they had heard … Continue reading
Hope
There is a Collect that I pray each morning as I wake up. Actually, I have to start it over a couple of times, because it really is my awakening prayer, and often I wake up more than once and … Continue reading
The spiritual gift of doubt
Blessed are those who can live with certainty, who can bear the burden of sureness. Because in certainty there is no need for hope; sureness has no need for trust. Some of us are not so strong. We cannot live … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, meditation, sermon preparation
Tagged certainty, Comforter, doubt, fear, hope, John 20:19-31, Thomas Sunday, Year C Easter 2
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Ash Wednesday
There is, on occasion, a disconnect between our words and our actions. We smile through gritted teeth as we make polite conversation with someone we do not like. We have profound and prolonged conversations about liberty and justice as we … Continue reading
Posted in homily, sermon
Tagged 12-17, 16-21, 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10, Ash Wednesday, fast, hope, hypocrisy, Isaiah 58:1-12, Jesus, Joel 2:1-2, Matthew 6:1-6, Psalm 51
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Year C Advent 1: New Year’s Resolutions
I think that it was the phrase, “dissipation, drunkenness and the worries of this life,” heard just now in the gospel according to Luke, that made me think of New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s resolutions. We’ve all made them. We’ve … Continue reading
Thankful Thursday/Fearful Friday
I have heard this week from a lot of wise leaders and graciously grateful people about the meaning of Thanksgiving, the meaning of thankfulness, and how it plays out – or should – in the days that follow this one. … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Friday, faithfulness, family, fear, hope, lost child, preachers, thankfulness, Thanksgiving
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Hannah’s hope: Eli’s affirmation
One last story about Hannah and me before Sunday. Eli saw Hannah praying in the temple, and assumed that she was drunk, because her lips were moving but she made no sound. He tried to send her away; but she … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon preparation
Tagged Eli, Hannah, hope, pregnancy, Year B Proper 28
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Hannah’s hope: Anticipation
I don’t often tell this story, because it makes me seem a little bit mad. But Hannah understands. Hannah left the temple and she ate and drank and her countenance was no longer sad. She wasn’t pregnant; she had no … Continue reading
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Tagged Hannah, hope, miscarriage, pregnancy, Samuel, Year B Proper 28
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Collect for the anniversary of a death
Almighty God, whose memory is longer than time; we remember especially today your daughter N. Grant us patience, peace, healing and hope as remember good times and bad; so that even our grief may become an instrument of your grace. … Continue reading
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