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Facing and Following - June 26, 2022
8th Sunday of Ordinary Time: 3rd Sunday after Pentecost RCL C Track 1
To cross a creek bed where the water has recently gone down, is not a clean or easy affair. It is mud; it is rocks; it is debris; it is slime. The path that Elisha cros...
Read MoreJune 19, 2022
Darcy* wandered in a bit late to youth group, the rest of us had already begun to eat. Her hair had probably been in a neat ponytail when she left the house in the morning, But by the time she arrived at the church, well that isn’t what stylist...
Read MoreJune 12, 2022
When a culturally informed Christian missionary group encounters a community of people with no prior knowledge of the Christian tradition, they do not begin by sharing the texts of Christmas, with the birth of God for us, nor with Easter, with Ch...
Read MoreJune 12, 2022
When a culturally informed Christian missionary group encounters a community of people with no prior knowledge of the Christian tradition, they do not begin by sharing the texts of Christmas, with the birth of God for us, nor with Easter, with Ch...
Read MoreJune 5, 2022
Pinwheels can be a lovely metaphor for the Holy Spirit: wind and breath and energy. It is an action-packed reminder. The streamers we have here today are lovely for their approximation of the sense of flow and motion and colors of the Spirit. Y...
Read MoreMay 29, 2022
“Father, what we do not know, teach us; What we have not; give us, What we are not, kindly make us. For Your Son’s sake. Amen.” I don’t know about you, but I get excited when I hear a movie, I liked will be getting a sequel. The ...
Read MoreMay 22, 2022
Jesus says, ‘my peace I give you’, and I think how much have you got? Is there a subscription plan? The very syllables have me reaching for him, but also for whatever suggests it might offer a bit more serenity. Looking around my life - I ha...
Read MoreMay 15, 2022
If we were to read in tomorrow's headlines that there was definitive proof that cats and dogs are actually an alien species sent to Earth to conquer us, that after all our 20th-century effort spent searching for alien life and it turns out they h...
Read MoreMay 8, 2022
Have you ever been on a journey in the woods and realized you needed a guide? Have you ever been on a tour with a really amazing guide and felt changed by the experience? My friend Kelly was telling me about her experiences as a tour guide in P...
Read MoreApril 24, 2022
There is no such thing as never being disappointed. Infants before six months if you watch closely, disappointment will register on their small faces. If humanity always managed to avoid disappointment, we would have long since brought about our ...
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