Tag: love
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Gospel Lessons – NIMBY
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“Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink?” Matthew 25:37b I learned a new acronym last week: NIMBY It means “Not in my back yard”. The context? People in […]
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Cluttering it Up – Building a Home
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By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Numbers 6:24-26 I don’t like clutter. For the longest time I would blame my stifled creativity, my unfettered procrastination, my demotivation, […]
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Baptismal Promises – The Ones Made to Us
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There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. ~Ephesians […]
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The Church Begins – Discomfort & Cleanliness
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and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or to visit a Gentile; but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.” ~Acts 10:28 In the verse […]
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Hopes & Dreams Part 7 – Reaching Out
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As part of my process to become an ordained minister in the ELCA, in 2016 I was required to write an essay focusing on my hopes and dreams for the church, where I see God at work in the world, and what […]
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Hopes & Dreams Part 4 – God is Love
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As part of my process to become an ordained minister in the ELCA, in 2016 I was required to write an essay focusing on my hopes and dreams for the church, where I see God at work in the world, and what […]
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Hopes & Dreams Part 3 – Vocational Calling
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As part of my process to become an ordained minister in the ELCA, in 2016 I was required to write an essay focusing on my hopes and dreams for the church, where I see God at work in the world, and what […]
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Not My First Mother’s Day
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The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him. Genesis 21:1-2 […]
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The Lenten Season: Ashes, Mortality, & Hope
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By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return. ~ Genesis 3:19 It might seem a little morose, a […]
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The Feast of St Valentine – Or Something
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Or depending on when you’re reading this post, if you’re reading it after Valentine’s Day, then I hope you had a wonderful day whether or not you were celebrating. And in all honesty, I know many of us don’t […]