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What it Takes to Get to the Altar
The holiest half-hour of my week, when the profundities of God rain down into my head, is when I’m hoping to administer communion to God’s people at the altar rail. This week, a middle-aged woman...
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Healing in the Jordan River – Trinity Cathedral
2 Kings 5:1-15 & Luke 17:11-19 When you stepped over the threshold of the building you’re sitting in this morning, you left the United States of America. You left American society. Be not afraid!...
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The Israelites, My Bros & Sises
Deuteronomy 5:23-27 23When you [Israelites] heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me [Moses], all the heads of your tribes and your elders; 24and...
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Soaking It Up
Since the first seeds dove into the soil the end of February, the weather has been rather dramatic. There are strong, sunny days when heat seems to rise off the dark soil, and I imagine the seeds...
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Illness & Healing
We live in an accomplishment-oriented society. Our identities are wrapped up in what we do in our jobs, what we can produce, how we “contribute to society.” There’s a lot of ego wrapped up this...
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brave people make intimidating congregations
Often, while sermon-writing, words come slowly, and when they come, they seem like little clods of dirt that break apart into dust the moment you try to grasp them. This exercise sends me running...
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God the Good Gardener
“Every branch that bears fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” Look at the stained glass windows around you this morning. They’ve been given at various times for various members of the...
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crying with the psalmist
“How long, O Lord, how long?” I wonder how long it is that my mind will be in this space, that my refrain will be from the second part of the third verse of psalm 6, “low long, O Lord, how long?” It...
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fear
“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to...
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