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Election Day and All Saints
I’m passing on a short prayer from the Center for Faith and Justice at Georgetown University. Prayer and action will form our response to actively and faithfully participating in local, state, and national elections. Democratic society thrives with votes of conscience to restore common decency bound by the peace that passes all understanding through our…
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A Year Later
In the past year, God initiated a new venture as an “interim” pastor. Quotes around “interim” as it’s been a year…what is “interim” about that? This call provided me the opportunity to experience a new community of disciples and the gracious gift to revive GraceXChange. First, God calls and you discern with the Holy Spirit…
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Prayer Power
To pray is to change. Prayer invokes the name of God, makes intersession through Jesus, and opens our hearts to conversation through the Holy Spirit. In the Gospel of James, the 5th Chapter we find a simple, yet life changing verse: 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you…
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Our Chosen Leaders
Today is March 24. A day of remembrance of the ministry and life of St. Oscar Romero. With all the vitriol and hate espoused today…the Church and it’s people are in need of accountability and transformation; especially for it’s leaders. Those, like St. Romero, who lived among and listened to the poor have found the…
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With Christ You Will Endure
So prevalent today: you or your co-worker received an email that literally shook the foundation upon which they ‘stood’ – your employment is terminated. As a result, grief and disbelief threaten to destroy their identity as a person, wrecks the ability to sustain passions which ignite love of work, family, community service. They are in…
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And so it goes…
Several months ago, I began to seek God’s guidance in an effort to transition my time, resources, energy, and experience to align with my personal mission statement (discerned from Micah 6:8 and The Blues Brothers Movie) “I believe that I am gifted by the Spirit, forgiven by Christ, and sent on a mission from God…
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Ending Well
At the beginning of the Church Year, we are afforded opportunity for reflection and renewal. Within the community of believers I have privilege to serve, Advent Season is a time for endings AND new beginnings. We have learned together that ending well is the better way to begin anew. Yes, there are times to make,…
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Essence of Christianity
The Essence of Christianity is…Faith ‘Quid pro quo’ – latin for ‘this for that’ – is the law of the land these days. If I do something, I am owed a reward or some affirmation of favor. Or more like, give me money and I will do what I can for you. Consider these…
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Water in the Desert
And so it goes…life on this planet is not possible without water. Same goes for external life. Baptism IS necessary for salvation. Water events, both in scarcity and abundance, require action and an enormous amount of reflection. It’s ironic that water is also reflective by nature and thus demands our attention; much like the human…
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Marriage Blessed and Ordained by God Alone
We find ourselves, as Godly people of faith, enmeshed in another social upheaval regarding marriage. First, the Bible and church tradition has consistently defined marriage, Holy Matrimony, as between a man and a women. Why? Because man and woman were created for each other. Societies since the beginning of time have adopted roles for…
