God works in real time. Not maybe time or should've time, but real time. Now is the day of salvation, in those days, in the fifteenth year. In the …
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Building Up the Wait Muscles
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at …
The Cruelty of Advent
Advent can seem cruel. We’re invited to delay the full-on embrace of Christmas proper to tarry in this land of Wait. It’s hard terrain. Ask …
Places Are Important to Us
Soon the shopping seasons will be upon us. As a pastor I used to thunder outrage at how commercialism had hijacked these holy days of Advent and …
The Case of the Scribe and the Widow
I've come to the alarming realization that I'm privileged. I say "alarming" because the privileged, like the scribe in this Sunday's gospel reading, …
Re-Booting: Lessons from the Protestant Reformation
A friend recently explained that while it’s okay to simply close your laptop, it’s good to shut down and re-boot periodically. That’s the way it is …
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