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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Rescuing Sainthood
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5 min read
I’ve been thinking a lot about saints. Partly because it is that time of year. And partly because I launched a podcast with the word Saints in the title. But more than anything, I’m focused on what we, you and I, think of sainthood. There isn’t one universal experience with the concept of sainthood, but…
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Unbind Them
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3 min read
All Saints and All Souls Observed Collect Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you…
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Souls
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1 min read
Honoring all who came before When we gather for our midweek service on Thursday, we are often given to honoring the life of someone the church lifts up as part of “the Great Cloud of Witnesses”. Which is another way to refer to those people we frequently call saints. Our collection of saints includes all…
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A remarkable response
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3 min read
For the Twenty-Third Sunday after PentecostProper 26B Collect Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,…
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Hallow
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1 min read
What do we honor? Hallow is not a word we use often, even in church, though most of us say it daily. “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” Outside of the Lord’s Prayer, we’re not likely to use it. The word hallow means to honor as holy. So, we honor God’s name as…
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No more Messianic Secret
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3 min read
For Sunday, the Twenty-Second Sunday after PentecostProper 25B Collect Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for…