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Have you ever asked that question? Where have your wonderings taken you? The Bible has a variety of answers to this question as well. Jesus begins his descriptions with the phrase, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like…”. The stories he…
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Summer adventures. Do you have something planned? What are you planning on taking with you? Last General Convention, two years ago, I was introduced to “Flat Jesus” for the first time. Josh Hoover had already left St. Jude’s and we…
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Gospel Lesson from Sunday, June 11, 2017 Matthew 28:16-20 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to…
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Last week we celebrated the Paschal Triduum – the most holy week of the Christian year. It was a busy week in the life of the church with services every weeknight as we journeyed to Jerusalem, the cross and then…
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New life… Resurrection… …themes of the Easter season in which we will find ourselves this month.  A time to ask ourselves, are we living evidence of the resurrection?  Do our lives as individuals and as a faith community reflect the…
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What do you think of when you hear the word “Lent”? What images come to mind? What sounds do you hear? What spiritual practices have you tried in the past? Lent is one of those seasons of preparation. For 40…
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It was just a couple of weeks ago that we gathered as a community of faith to reflect on 2016 and to begin dreaming forward to 2017 and beyond. The structure of the meeting was different this year as it…
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For about 30 years now I’ve been building a Christmas nativity crèche. My godmother started me on it with the basic set – with four wise ones because we really don’t know the number of wise ones that visited. Over…
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On one of our recent road trips, Dave and I were driving along 131 and all of a sudden near Kalkaska a tree emerged at the side of the road. A very tall tree. A very different tree. A tree…
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Journey. Have you ever been on a journey? How did you prepare? Journeys imply a change in location. There’s usually some kind of planning involved. A destination needs to be chosen, plans about how to get there need to be…
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