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Forgive Now
“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” As a part of the “Our Father,” you have probably prayed that line of prayer more times than...
What Are You Longing For?
With Lent nearly halfway over, it’s a good time to take a look at today’s psalm, then at our-Lent-selves, then back at the psalm again. Are our voluntary Lenten disciplines...
Sticking by the Eucharist
For today's readings, we have the Ten Commandments juxtaposed with Christ driving out the money changers in the temple. Two incredibly significant moments in the Bible. The founding of the...
Rejoice. And Be Free.
I will never forget our family vacation to Wyoming when I was 20 years old. The only reason I went with my parents and younger sister in the first place...
Christ the Cornerstone
"The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone." In construction terminology (which you may be completely unfamiliar with, as I am), the cornerstone is the first stone set...
In God We Trust
"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD . . . He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does...
What Are We Asking?
You do not know what you are asking. How many times do we do this? Fall on our knees, beg for our prayers to be answered, plead with the Almighty...
Humanity
You have heard the phrase so many times in many different forms . . ."Talk the talk and Walk the walk" . . . "Practice what you Preach" . ....
Looking with Love
The readings today feel like a divine whack with a two-by-four from the Holy Spirit. Whack! Boom! Ouch! One of the things I have most struggled with in living...
Transfiguration in the Everyday
Over half a century ago Richard Wilbur wrote a poem called “Plain Song for Comadre” about a woman who cleans a church. ...it is seventeen years Come tomorrow That Bruna...
Upping The Ante
There they are, old friends from college. Not really friends, we still run in the same circle, though. Insensitive during our years of infertility, un-congratulatory when we finally did have...
Because You Are a Superhero, That’s Why
Today’s readings from Ezekiel and Matthew can be pretty well summed up by another familiar Bible verse, Luke 12:48: “To whom much has been given, much will be required.” Perhaps...
