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Jesus asked them, “Who do people say that I am?” . . .  And then He asked them, “Who do YOU say that I Am?”  And Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” Who Are you?  How would you answer that question?  Perhaps you would give a description based…

John 5 “Before God, with the people of God, we confess to our brokenness: To the ways we wound our lives, the lives of others, and the life of the world.”  (Taken from the Morning Service in the Iona Abbey worship book) “For a good person to recognize that it is more important to be…

“It is clear to me that God shows no partiality” Acts 10:34 There is no little irony in the fact that recent social unrest coincides with the Feast of Pentecost.  Pentecost, or the Feast of Weeks as it is called in the Old Testament, fell fifty days after the resurrection of Jesus; the day upon…

“Woman, where are your accusers”?  She answered him, “No one is accusing me.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you.”  John 8 “If we treated our friends the same way we see ourselves we’d all be in jail.”  Unknown  Self-Awareness is priceless.  Self-Condemnation on the other hand comes at a very great…

“I have come that they might have life . . .”  Jesus “The Life I now live is hidden with Christ . . .” St. Paul My daughter put me onto the Netflix show “After Life” starring Ricky Gervais (If you’re offended by him, his language or his coarse sense of humor, don’t watch).  Spoiler…

“What are you seeking?”  John 1:38 “Do not now seek answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is to live everything.  Live the questions now.” Rainer Maria Rilke How would you answer that question?  If Jesus were asking you instead of Andrew and the…

May 3, 2020 “Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, persevering in prayer.”  Romans 12:12 “What are you doing during these times?”  That seems to be a frequently asked question.   Common answers include “Getting outside”, “Catching up with house projects”, and “Binge-watching Netflix.”  How would our lives be different if we did what St. Paul is…

April 19, 2020 “As Jesus came near to Jericho a blind man sat by the wayside begging . . . and he cried out ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy upon me.” Luke 18:35,38 There are many silver linings to the current Covid crisis in this country. One is that it gives us ample time…

April 12, 2020 “Jesus, knowing that his time had come to depart to the Father, having loved his own he loved them to the end.” John 13:1 “Love runs deeper than any distance.”  That’s what Judy told me at 5:30 a.m. Monday morning.  Our paths crossed on our morning walk.  The brief conversation carried us…

Good Friday, 2020 Do not think of these sufferings as though something strange were happening to you.  St. Peter I do not consider these present sufferings worthy of being compared to the glory that is yet to be revealed.  St. Paul Both Peter and Paul were familiar with suffering.  Death in Christ was their way…