If you’ve spent any time on Twitter you are well aware that people hold grudges – election result grudges, offense taken grudges and reply grudges generated when someone disagrees with your entrenched point of view. The ‘magic’ of holding grudges is that one can take offense out of thin air and then present the…
We first meet Saul of Tarsus in Dr. Luke’s historical account The Acts of the Apostles. But they yelled at [Stephen] at the tops of their voices, blocked their ears, and made a concerted dash at him. They bundled him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses laid their cloaks down at…
Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord we bless you Psalm 118:25, 26 When he came to the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to celebrate and praise God at the tops…
The real crisis in America is not among the media obsessed topics. The real crisis is not guns or climate change or lack of socialized medical care or who said what and when. The real crisis is fatherlessness. And government and new laws are not the answer to this crisis. Fidelity and faithfulness and…
The Apostle Paul’s letter to the Colossian churches begins and ends with references to Epaphras and to prayer. In the opening of his letter Paul gives thanks in prayer to God for “the word of truth” which is “producing fruit and growing” in the world and is now doing so among the Christians in…
“He told this next parable against those who trusted in their own righteous standing and despised others. “Two men,” he said. “went up to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee; the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed in this way to himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am…
Just the other day I saw this picture, a billboard remembrance of Billy Graham, posted in a Tweet. “Gone home” brought back memories of the spurious teaching and preaching I have been under for many years regarding the end of one’s life. If we say “home is where the heart is” then yes, Billy Graham…
2011, Lent. Last night I received the external mark of penitence with the imposition of ashes: the sign of the cross placed on my forehead. I was reminded: “Dust you are and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19). After the imposition of the ashes our congregation knelt and we confessed sin. The rector…
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