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- Fifth Sunday in Lent – April 6, 2025 - John 12:1-8
- Fourth Sunday in Lent – March 30, 2025 - Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 When our son…Jason…was in fourth grade…I dropped him off 15 minutes early for school. I had never done that before…but Susan was teaching at another school and I had to make it to a meeting… And the school did allow students to be dropped off early. Two hours later…I was in …
- Third Sunday in Lent – March 23, 2025 - Luke 13:1-9 If you could go back and tell your 21-year-old self-something…what would it be? When I was 21…I was a senior in college…and would graduate the next May. When I was 20…after I graduated from college… I thought I would enter graduate school and move toward a masters and then a PhD in American …
- Second Sunday in Lent – March 16, 2025 - Luke 13:31-35 Previously…on the mountain of Transfiguration and then out in the wilderness of temptation…there was an abstract sense to things…not quite connected to our experience. But today the wilderness is very real and familiar. Jesus is in Jerusalem…the holy city… But not in the royal courtyards or temple. He is in…among the crowds…on the …
- First Sunday in Lent – March 9, 2025 - Luke 4:1-13 If given a choice…most of us are not going to choose a path in life that is filled with difficulty (we raise our children teaching them to avoid it). But spiritual depth and growth happen as we respond to the trials…troubles…temptations… Testing and fear that arise in life. For many of us…it is …
- Ash Wednesday – March 5, 2025 - Psalm 51:1-17 I understand why confessing our sins…marking ourselves with ashes and reminding each other that we are all going to die is not exactly Disney on Ice. But it’s not depressing. If anything…it’s refreshing. It is refreshing in a way that only the truth can be. Because we know deep down that we live …
- Transfiguration of Our Lord – March 2, 2025 - Luke 9: 28-36 I was thinking this week: Most of the Western world only associates Transfiguration with Professor Minerva McGonagal… Who teaches Transfiguration at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. The popularity of the Harry Potter books is understandable since we now seem to live in a world without magic. The history of humanity …
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- Seventh Sunday after Epiphany – February 23, 2025 - Luke 6:27-38 There’s no way to avoid it—this is a difficult text. I place it in the category of: Things I Wish Jesus Never Said. We know what Jesus asks of us. We know what the Bible says. But we often will say or think: Who could really live this way? Well…Jesus…of course…but he was …
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- Sixth Sunday after Epiphany – February 16, 2025 - Luke 6:17-26 When I was in eighth grade…my grandfather died…my mom’s dad. And it was the first major death in my life and remains an emotional memory. It was my grandfather who taught me how to hammer my first nail. It was my grandfather who taught me how to saw a board with a square …
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- Fifth Sunday after Epiphany – February 9, 2025 - Luke 5:1-11 Sunday, February 9, 2025 Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Confession and Forgiveness Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, our creator, our protector, our wellspring of life. Amen. Trusting that God receives our words and the meditations of our hearts, let us confess our sin. Silence is kept for reflection. Merciful God, you …
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