teaching

  • How to raise kids you can be truly proud of

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    I’m sure you want really good kids. Or you love someone else’s kids and want them to be good. Here’s a poem which I hope helps you. HOW TO RAISE KIDS YOU CAN BE TRULY PROUD OF The first step is to try having sex. This won’t work for everybody, however. Some have bodies which…

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  • Possessing the Kingdom

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    He’s not mincing words. The Kingdom belongs to them. Not the disciples. Not the Pharisees. Not the Romans. The children. We need to hear these words. How our focus on law and politics misses the real revelation Proper 22B  |  Mark 10:2-16 The Long Walk is Almost Over The walk from Caesarea Philippi to Jerusalem is…

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  • How To Get the Most Out Of Church

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    Of course I love church. That goes without saying. But I don’t always love the church. I don’t always love the way we do church or the way we incarnate the church. It sometimes gets to me and drains me. Some of that is me. But a lot of it is the way we approach church as church members…

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  • Wishing to See

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    Learning in the absence of Jesus Lent 5B  |  John 12:20-33 Wishing to See “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” It is a deceptively simple moment. We’d almost overlook it. These people come to Philip looking for Jesus. Philip goes to Andrew and they both go to Jesus. “Sir, we wish to see Jesus,” they…

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  • What you don’t understand about Sacraments

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    The old argument goes children need to understand the sacrament before they receive it. I am still surprised to hear this. As a priest, I hear it from people of all sorts. When they do suggest such a thing to me, I simply ask them Even after they were baptized as infants? The look I…

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  • What does Jesus communicate?

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    I have this feeling that we all live with a paradox about Jesus. On the one hand, we feel confident, every one of us, that we could actually answer that question What Would Jesus Do? And, at the same time, when pressed on what Jesus’s most important message is, we shuffle our feet, look at…

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