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Thanks
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1 min read
a season of gratitude and anticipation As we prepare, gather, and eat dinners over a long holiday weekend or campout for the “best deals of the season” at the annual shopping bacchanalia, we are drawn by the season to an attitude of gratitude. The funny thing is just how alien thankfulness sounds in 2021. I…
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The Right Decision
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2 min read
We agonize about getting our decisions “right.” When we do this, we show anxiety about the future. If we’re in the middle of deciding, then it isn’t in the future. It’s something happening right now. But once it’s decided, it is no longer present. It immediately becomes the past. The problem is that usually the…
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Better Than a King
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8 min read
Christians have long called Jesus their king as a way of describing his place. The trouble is just how much that limits him.
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When we justify evil
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4 min read
I know you have thoughts about the young man who shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin. We all do. And, in a sense, that’s all our culture offers us right now: thoughts. Disparate, unconnected, intemperate thoughts. But our thoughts often get trapped in a binary prison. We know that killing is wrong, but…and then we…
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Thinking Apocalyptic
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7 min read
Episode 6 November 18, 2021
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Dealing with Power
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3 min read
The Last Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 29BJohn 18:33-37 Collect Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his…
Make a New Normal
