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May 4, 2008 - It's a battle.............. Seventh Sunday after Easter It's easy enough to have a grateful heart for food and shelter, health and love. But we are to give thanks also in all kinds of loss, in illness, in depression, in grief, in failure as well as in success and happiness...in everything, give thanks. (More...)
Apr 27, 2008 - In the conversation Sixth Sunday after Easter Some folks have gotten the idea that to be “inclusive” means to say nothing distinctive, nothing that might point out a difference in another's faith or lack of faith. What a wishy-washy thing that is! (More...)
Apr 20, 2008 - We are...we will be.... Fifth Sunday after Easter The air is thick with hate and recriminations at home and around the world. People everywhere need to know that there is something more, something positive, something finally worthwhile. (More...)
Apr 13, 2008 - Worship and Life Fourth Sunday after Easter An important part of the Christian life is learning and studying the 10 Commandments, but an equally important part of Christian living is applying those 10 Commandments in the ways we treat one another and God day after day. (More...)
Apr 6, 2008 - Just Talking Third Sunday After Easter Gold is a god that simply points us back to ourselves, isn't it? (More...)
Mar 30, 2008 - Resurrection of the Body Second Sunday After Easter This resurrected life is now and not yet; it is underway and yet to be fulfilled. God will take us with all of our faltering hopes and uncertain expectations and re-make us. (More...)
Mar 23, 2008 - This New Day Easter On this new day called Easter empty space and vague hopes are transformed into the Body of Christ; hungers are being satisfied; facades are being taken down and replaced with true community. (More...)
Mar 22, 2008 - Blessed be God! Great Vigil of Easter Remember this night's light as a sign of what will happen on that great and final day when all and every kind of darkness is at length banished forever. (More...)
Mar 21, 2008 - Died, For Me! Good Friday (Evening Service) Through cross and resurrection, Jesus demonstrates that there are absolutely no limits through which he will not go in order to get us, to grab hold of us, to find us and save us, and to bring us home into the fellowship of the kingdom of God. (More...)
Mar 21, 2008 - It is finished! Good Friday One of the great sorrows of our lives is that we cannot say that something is finished in quite the same way as Jesus. When we say it is finished, what we mean is that is as good as we can do now. (More...)
Mar 20, 2008 - This Do! Maundy Thursday What begins here in worship doesn't stay here; our actions in daily life point the way for others! (More...)
Mar 16, 2008 - Good News for those who flunk the test Palm Sunday We, the ones who wave palms gladly, are the ones who deny that we know anything about Jesus, but we are also the ones who have been called into the covenant of God's promise. (More...)
Mar 9, 2008 - To Laugh, Yes, To Laugh! Fifth Sunday of Lent This Holy Spirit, is the one who gives us the strength to endure personal adversity, and the courage to recognize how things can be changed inside our one lives, by the action of that same Spirit. (More...)
Mar 2, 2008 - Together in Christ - Glenn Lunger Memorial Service He understood and lived in ways that said that it is not about “I, me, and my” so much as it is about “us” together in the kingdom of God. (More...)
Mar 2, 2008 - Why? Fourth Sunday of Lent At this and in many subsequent times, questions are put to us, sometimes by very hostile folks who ask “what is with this Jesus business?” (More...)
Feb 24, 2008 - Bigger than we thought Third Sunday of Lent As we talk with folks, we can discover that Jesus will use a variety of means to get through to us. (More...)
Feb 17, 2008 - Abraham the Player, Nicodemus the Spectator Second Sunday of Lent God is not about to allow us to build up walls behind which we can hide. (More...)
Feb 10, 2008 - Saying NO First Sunday of Lent The work of God in our world is not to help us to grab what we want, but rather to enable us for the first time in our self-centered little lives to get what God wants. (More...)
Feb 6, 2008 - In deep conversation with the Father Ash Wednesday We are living our true existence as we are offering ourselves to the will of the Father: All that I have is yours, Father, Thy will be done. (More...)
Feb 3, 2008 - How close to God? Transfiguration of Our Lord Despite my inadequacies, limitations, misdeeds, ill-spoken words, and much more.....Jesus loves me! (More...)
Jan 27, 2008 - What? Who? Where? When? Third Sunday of Epiphany It is simple; get ourselves in the place where God can call us, and things will happen, and we'll uncover what those things are, bit by bit. (More...)
Jan 20, 2008 - Behold, the Lamb who takes.... Second Sunday of Epiphany Our words are good; but our reality is much darker, mixed up; confused, twisted up with sin. (More...)
Jan 13, 2008 - It Just Might Happen The Baptism of Jesus In the regular grind of life and work and worship, we may receive a gift of Gospel: The Spirit will find some way to get through to us. (More...)
Jan 6, 2008 - The Gift of You Epiphany The important thing is not the gift, but the persons...these wise men, who present themselves with their gifts before Jesus, recognizing that God is up to something wonderful. May this be a great Epiphany for us: the only true gift is the gift of oneself. (More...)
Dec 30, 2007 - Mine Eyes Have Seen Remembrance Service No matter what our problem, sadness, or loss, the promise is there for us to hold: our eyes, too, have seen a bit, just a bit of the Lord's salvation. (More...)
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