getting out the word
the 4th sunday in lent the PRAYER … God of compassion, you welcome the wayward, and you embrace us all with your mercy. By our baptism clothe us with garments of your grace, and feed us at the table of…
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the 4th sunday in lent the PRAYER … God of compassion, you welcome the wayward, and you embrace us all with your mercy. By our baptism clothe us with garments of your grace, and feed us at the table of…
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Joshua 5. 9-12We are a people not of a destination, but of the way!! It’s called a canon-within-a-canon. Canon not in the sense of an artillery piece. But canon as in a collection of sacred books. That’s what we called…
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the 3rd sunday in lent the PRAYER … Eternal God, your kingdom has broken into our troubled world through the life, death, and resurrection of your Son. Help us to hear your word and obey it, and bring your saving…
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reflecting on the journeyChurch is created by, sustained with, and born again in … the gospel! It’s been a little more than three years. Since we sold our building. Truth be told, we expected to be farther by now. But…
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the 2nd sunday in lent the PRAYER … God of the covenant, in the mystery of the cross you promise everlasting life to the world. Gather all peoples into your arms, and shelter us with your mercy, that we may…
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Genesis 15. 1-12, 17-18Believing is nothing more – or less – than taking god at god’s word! And he believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness. And he believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned…
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the 1st sunday in lent the PRAYER … O Lord God, you led your people through the wilderness and brought them to the promised land. Guide us now, so that, following your Son, we may walk safely through the wilderness…
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Deuteronomy 26. 1-11The journey is god’s, not ours! This was one of “those” weeks! One of “those weeks, not in a bad way, but in a good one! It began when I read the passage from Deuteronomy. The passage we…
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ash wednesday the PRAYER … Almighty and ever-living God, you hate nothing you have made, and you forgive the sins of all who are penitent. Create in us new and honest hearts, so that, truly repenting of our sins, we…
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Exodus 34. 29-35Life is rooted not in the Old, but in the Cross! For years, now, my Monday mornings have begun, pretty much, the same way. At nine o’clock sharp, the phone rings. I answer. And for the next hour…
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