Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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Needing a break
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For SundayEighth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your…
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What not to do
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For SundaySeventh Sunday after Pentecost Collect O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you…
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A belief or believing?
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Belief isn’t the same thing as a belief. A belief is a concept. It also happens to be a concept that we may trust is true. Belief is an act. Perhaps it is that act of trusting in the truth of a concept we refer to as a belief. But it doesn’t have to be.…
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Limits of Power / Limits of Belief
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For SundaySixth Sunday after Pentecost Collect O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord,…
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Driven by Faith or Fear?
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For SundayFifth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus…
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On the Stilling of the Storm
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For SundayFourth Sunday after Pentecost Collect O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one…