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How to begin a New Year and New Decade? How about this: with two vital spiritual qualities: Trust and Wonder. The first title of this […]
Continue reading »How to begin a New Year and New Decade? How about this: with two vital spiritual qualities: Trust and Wonder. The first title of this […]
Continue reading »It has been so since the beginning: Christmas in time of terror. The Christmas story in Matthew contains it: the slaughter of the innocents in […]
Continue reading »Peace has been our central theme this season, and now here we are at the manger. Isaiah had dreamed our future: For unto us a […]
Continue reading »There may be few scenes in the Bible painted more often through the centuries than the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel visits Mary and […]
Continue reading »Today’s vision of peace from the prophet is of a desert in bloom, a perfect text for the third Sunday in Advent, Joy Sunday: The […]
Continue reading »Peace, Peace, Peace. Just as there are many forms of light, soft light brilliant light, early morning light and last light before evening, so there […]
Continue reading »“Peace, Peace, Peace” is the theme of this year’s Advent season. In Isaiah’s vision of the coming Messiah he wrote—and I can almost hear Handel’s […]
Continue reading »This is my fourth fall with you, and I’ve never preached a sermon on stewardship. No one’s complained. But I thought today, when we have […]
Continue reading »If I were to select one passage in Paul’s writings that captures the secret of living, for me it would be these verses from Philippians. […]
Continue reading »How do we live with life’s loose ends? Do you know what I’m talking about? Relationships that have gotten messed up, and you don’t know […]
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