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Teach Us, Oh Lord, To Love

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

As we do every year on Maundy Thursday, we once again hear Jesus say, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you” (John 13:34). What does it mean to love as Jesus loved? In the washing of his disciples’ feet,…

Teach Us, Oh Lord, To Live With Tension

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

Tension! Life is filled with tension. Now, for most of us, when we think of tension, we immediately think of conflict. But, tension isn’t conflict. Conflict is literally a state of disharmony, or to put it more bluntly it is a state of open fighting.…

Teach Us, Oh Lord, To Die

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

Our gospel story today is what most scholars would consider the end of Jesus’ public teachings in the Gospel of John. After this, Jesus teachings would be directed solely toward his disciples. But, as we come to the end of Jesus’ public ministry,…

Teach Us, O Lord, To Live Generously

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life” (3:14-16). This might be the most recognized and memorized bible verse in the world. For many, this verse wasn’t something…

Teach Us, O Lord, To Obey

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

We are so accustomed to the story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection that I don’t really believe that we can fully appreciate how hard it must been for those first disciples to listen to Jesus and comprehend what he was telling them. At the…

Teach Us, To Follow

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

As I was reading our Gospel story this morning you might have been sitting there saying, hey, haven’t we already read this story this year? Well, yes, we have read parts of this story on two different occasions in the past five weeks. On the first…

Teach Us, To Repent!

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

This past Sunday, we read the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration and in that story, God speaks and as I noted on Sunday, what makes that story so powerful for me is that when God speaks, it is the only time he speaks directly to us humans in the gospel.…

Time To See With Our Ears

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

Just five weeks ago we began the Season of Epiphany. Now, the word epiphany comes from the Greek word epiphaneia, which means “disclosure” or “unveiling,” so in the early church the term began to be associated with those times when God…

Healed To Serve

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

Our story today takes place in Capernaum. You see, we know this because today’s gospel is a continuation of our story last week and last week we read that Jesus and his disciples were in Capernaum. This is the archeological site of Capernaum today.…

This Call Is For You

Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen

You know in today’s world, when someone calls you, before you answer the phone you usually know who is on the other end, don’t you? I mean with cell phones, caller id, and any number of other ways we can receive messages, the technology is such that…

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