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New Birth – Christmas as Catalyst for Change
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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When Baptism Gets In the Way of Being a Good Christian
I’m supposed to want to baptize people. As a Christian and as a priest, I’m supposed to want people to come to the waters. Usually I do. I’m learning to loose my grip on the sacraments and serve the calling of GOD in respect for all the other people called by GOD. It just seems…
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Freaky-Cool
It isn’t the right time he insists. But she ignores him and rats him out. So of course he’s going to do it. The revelation of GOD defies expectations Epiphany 2C | John 2:1-11 The revelation When Jesus is baptized in the great big river by the prophet named John, and he comes out of…
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Blessed For Mission
This is huge! And I honestly don’t understand why we don’t get this time off of school and aren’t making a bigger deal of it. Putting Jesus’s baptism at the center of faith Epiphany 1C | Luke 3:15-22 The big deal There are three ways we know that Jesus’s baptism was about as important to…
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Don’t Run Away
We cannot run from this responsibility to fix the brokenness and bring Shalom (peace) to our community. Bear fruits worthy of repentance! Because if we can’t do it, GOD will find someone else to do it! GOD can make the children of Abraham from these stones! Preparing for GOD means dealing with problems Advent 3C…
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Shouldn’t all sacraments be on Sundays?
a Should’ve Asked Question Speaking to people much older than myself about baptism, I hear some pretty interesting things. First among them is how their children were baptized. Many of the people I’ve met in ministry have an experience of gathering with family on a Saturday for the baptism of their children. This practice is…
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Shouldn’t sacraments be alike?
A Should’ve Asked Question When we bring new people into the faith, we often ask them to memorize a short phrase from the back of the Book of Common Prayer. A phrase that many of us can rattle off with little trouble. At least the first half of it, anyway. We sit, Prayer Books in hand…
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Repent and Become
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…