Posts Tagged ‘being in community’
Foretaste of the Sermon to Come
A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s readings are Acts 17:22-31, 1 Peter 3:18-22, John 14:15-21 If you love me you will keep my commandments. We humans are…
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A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary. Sunday’s scriptures are Acts 2:42–47, 1 Peter 2:19–25, & John 10:1–10 Well it’s Good Shepherd Sunday, and each year how many ways…
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A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s scriptures are Acts 2:14a, 36–41, 1 Peter 1:17–23, Luke 24:13–35 My week usually feels like the Road to Emmaus. Sunday is…
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Genesis 8:20–22 (ESV): 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on…
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A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s scriptures are 2 Timothy 1:1-14 and Luke 17:1-10 “Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to anyone by whom…
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A little nibble of the Revised Common Lectionary Sunday’s scriptures are Psalm 51, 1 Timothy 2:1-7, and Luke 15:1-10. Psalm 51 is such a beautiful and reassuring promise. We often…
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“A Christian is an utterly free man, lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is an utterly dutiful man, servant of all, subject to all.” — Martin Luther, On The Freedom Of A Christian
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By Pastor Paula Burchill Christmas seems like it has long since come and gone, but every year I’m struck with how different families can be with gift giving, and I’m…
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By Pastor Paula Burchill I think there are a lot of lonely people. I hear it from moms of young children, and I so remember that time of life. …
Read MoreOn Their Side
I just finished a book called Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan. The book is a memoir about Kelly learning to appreciate her mom, who always had to be the…
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