Posts Tagged ‘Advent’
Foretaste of the Sermon to Come
A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s readings are Isaiah 9:2-7, Colossians 1:15-20, Luke 2:1-20, John 1:1-14 With the recent deaths of both of my parents and some…
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A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s scriptures are: Psalm 89:1–4, 19–26, Romans 16:25–27; Luke 1:26–38 We celebrate Jesus’ birth at Christmas, but do we really know what…
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A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s scriptures are Isaiah 52:7-10, Hebrews 1:1-4 and John 1:1-18 As I write this late on Christmas Eve, I am thinking about…
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A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s scriptures are Isaiah 35:1-10, Psalm 146:5-10, Matthew 11:2-11 In our Gospel reading, John the Baptist is having doubts, not the…
Read MoreSo Much Bad News
By Pastor Paula Burchill One of my kids looked at his phone the other day and informed me that over 200 people were killed in a mosque in Egypt. …
Read MoreTattoos on the Heart
I have been reading “Tattoos on the Heart” by Gregory Boyle. Boyle is a Jesuit priest who has worked in Los Angeles for decades in the most gang-infested part of…
Read MoreStories
One of the best things about Christmas is the stories. When I was a kid, we used to always act out the Christmas story on Christmas Eve, complete with my…
Read MoreDevotions
There is a group of people who started meeting on Sunday to talk about how to teach SLC how to be better about doing personal devotions. We are a very…
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I have a love-hate relationship with waiting. I totally believe that we don’t do enough of it. At least I know I don’t. 2 of my 3 kids and I…
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