Epiphany

  • In the Light

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    In the Epiphany, the church concludes the Christmas season in the same spirit with which it began: that a light comes into the world in the midst of darkness to be for us a permanent reminder of God’s presence and love. Reinforcing the Christmas Light is in us The Epiphany  |  Matthew 2:1-12 We close…

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  • Do Not Hide

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    Never hide. Because it’s time. Now is the season. The season when we celebrate the light shining in the darkness. The season when the anointed has been revealed and is made manifest in us. Each of us a light already shining. Even though it’s dark. It seems so dark. Many of us remember that small…

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  • New Birth – Christmas as Catalyst for Change

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    I gave up New Year’s Resolutions years ago. But every year, I face the same routine of looking at my life through the lens of aging. Always. We get to midnight on New Year’s Day and by 12:01 am, I’m trying on the new year’s number with the fascination of a time traveler. How did we…

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  • “Spotlight” Is the Epiphany On Film

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    They were Jesus to people who couldn’t find Jesus in the pulpit or the pew. This is Christ revealed to the world. This is the Epiphany in action today. Jesus is revealed through mercy The Epiphany | Matthew 2:1-12 Spotlight Monday, I was one of two people in the theater watching Spotlight. If you don’t know…

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  • In the Middle

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    The Transfiguration, Peter, and how it feels in the inbetween. The middle, the hinge point in Mark is the end of chapter 8, when Jesus tells the disciples what is about to happen to him and to the movement, and the beginning of chapter 9, when Jesus is transfigured on the mountain. This is the…

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  • Called to Transformation

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    How Jesus calls us to act now to do something audacious, in spite of ourselves, precisely because GOD is audacious a Homily for Epiphany 3B  |  Text: Mark 1:14-20 Calling I love these call stories: these stories of Jesus calling the disciples to follow him. I think they’re pure gold for us. They may not be…

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  • What Do We See?

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      Seeing is not just Believing, Seeing is Really Seeing Epiphany 2B   |  John 1:43-51 Come and See Andrew is a follower of John the Baptist. He’s the one involved. He’s the worker. The devoted one. After John baptizes Jesus, he tells Andrew about it, about him. Who Jesus really is. Andrew gets his…

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  • Repent and Become

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    And here, at the font, is where we begin. We get the chance to repent and return. We get the chance to realign and to be given a new opportunity. To shake that Etch-a-Sketch we call a life and try again. We get to go through baptism once, but we can keep getting wet. We…

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