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Readings are here.Some random thoughts towards a sermon for tomorrow.We used to have a small boat that we took out on Boysen Reservoir. As many know the mornings are calm and sunny but by mid afternoon thunderstorms begin to build and the storms can sweep across that lake in a matter of minutes. One day we were out in the middle of the lake when one of these storms came up. We made for the boat

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Readings are here.Today's readings are mostly about growth and the innateness of growth in all of creation. The tree in Ezekiel, flourishing of the psalm, and of course the mustard seed in the gospel. Although it is in the nature of all things to grow, it is a particularly human trait to have an imagination that grows. We are born with imagination and with care and feeding and the nurture of God

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My Trinity Sunday sermon is here. Click on the Click Here to hear it.

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Readings are hereWhen the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other

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Some last thoughts on Ascension -- my essay on Ascension is here. As I was preaching the sermon I focused on God breaking down the barriers between us and the Holy. Jesus prays that we may be one as he and the Father are one. Often this is used as a motivator for Christian unity but I think it is more in the line of all the times God broke through all the barriers we have erected between

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Supposing him to be the gardener...Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb, deep in her grief and loss. The one who had freed her of her many demons, who had given her back her life, whom she had followed and supported - he is dead. All who have experienced death of those we love, of the passing away of beloved times, can relate to this depth of loss. The story of God in human life starts in a garden. In

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Cleveland sings for love

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From the Archbishop of Canterbury:

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Opening Day! Put me in coach:

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Today we start with one kind of parade leading into another. From the joyous Hosannas to the silence of the tomb. At our 8 a.m. service I had everyone read the Jesus' parts. Usually the congregations gets the "Crucify him" parts so I thought it would be a change for them to look at from the point of view of Jesus. I preached briefly on noticing who ministered to Jesus along the way. Noted that it

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Father Matthew takes on the saying "love the sinner, hate the sin" - why that does not work.You can now purchase his series on the Sacraments as a DVD - great for Christian Education or inquirers' classes. Click here for more information.

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h/t to Andrew Plus

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Here is the prayer I composed for the blessing of our local library. In 1909 the original Carnegie was built here in Lander - a big stone edifice like you see in many Western small towns. Today in 2009 we dedicated an addition and remodel of the old. Odd fact- the current mayor grew up in the house where the new addition now stands.Prayer for the Fremont County Library in LanderGod of all

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Readings are here.This week's lessons seem to have a theme of being raised up for healing. In the wilderness Moses holds up the image of a snake to heal those who have been bitten by poisonous snakes. The letter to the Ephesians says:God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- by grace

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Thanks to Fran I Am.

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Readings are here here.This week we have the 10 commandments, Paul wondering about wisdom, and Jesus clearing out the temple courtyards. The collect prays "Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul." It seems that all our lessons point us

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Readings are here.Paul makes me laugh sometimes when I read his letters. This line from this week is an example:He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.As good as dead. Paul thinks that being old is the same as dead but praises Abraham's faith

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If I could only have one book of the Bible it would be the psalms. Brother Abraham at St. Gregory's Monastery reflects on praying the psalms on a regular rotation at the Abbey:The main activity here at St. Gregory’s consists of public corporate prayer in the Abbey Church, and the main part of that prayer takes the form of recitation of the Psalms. Through the course of a week, the entire book of

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A friend sent me this poem on the Annunciation - the conception of Jesus and Mary's response. It is a Mary I can embrace:It seems I must have been more fertile than mostto have taken that wind-blownthistledown softly-spoken wordinto my body and grown big-bellied with it.Nor was I the first: there had beenrumours of such goings-on before my turncame - tales of swansdown. Minehad no wings or

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Parshat Va'eira from G-dcast.comMore Torah cartoons at www.g-dcast.com

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