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Inseparable
As Jesus describes himself as the vine and we are the branches, he compels us to reexamine the way we approach our world.
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Are we too obsessive? Yes. Yes we are.
We’re conflicted by the thought that God is responsible and also so are we, making it about our own obsessions with getting it right.
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Abiding with Jesus—for Easter 5B
This week, we wrestle with an uncommon word: abide: and what it means for us. To abide with Jesus when we’d rather do our own thing.
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Between Easter 4 and 5 (Year B)
The gap between the fourth and fifth Sundays of Easter highlights the nature of the love Jesus commands his followers to share.
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Love and the Vine
In comparing himself to the vine, Jesus gives us an opportunity to see the communal nature of love.
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Not Much of a Gardener
For SundayEaster 5B Collect Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who…
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A Baptism in the Wilderness
In Philip’s baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch, we see our own invitation to embody God’s love, share in the redeeming of the world, and the offering of hope in the middle of nowhere. If we recognize the invitation for what it is: our everything. an invitation to embody God’s love Easter 5B | Acts 8:26-40,…
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Living in the midst of death
Jesus’s vine image and the challenge of abiding in him Easter 5B | John 15:1-8 A Green Thumb My Mom is a gardener. When we moved up to Alpena from southeast of Detroit, we were moving into a rectory: a two-story beauty with a side porch and slightly sloping lawn. Big, mature trees next…