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We Want the Truth

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

“You can’t handle the truth!” Remember that line from the movie, “A Few Good Men”? It is a classic line from a great movie, but it is also what Jesus said to his followers (and says to us today) before he left them to return to the Father. The…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

This Sunday, May 22, is Trinity Sunday. It is the one day in the whole church year in which we actually celebrate a church doctrine. Although we use the term “trinity” as though it was a word explained in scripture, the word is never found in scripture. The church made up this doctrine and actually created…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

This morning, shortly after I got up, a storm moved in. The wind was blowing so hard that the trees were bending over and limbs were falling off in our yard, and the sound was unbelievable. A few minutes later, it started pouring and hailing. Here in De Soto, we had hail the size of golf balls. I knew…

A Prayer for You

Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the

Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.

For the past six weeks, we have been celebrating Easter. Each time we have gathered, we have proclaimed the Risen Christ. Our scripture texts have focused not only on how Jesus engaged his followers immediately after his Resurrection, but for the past…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

It is hard for me to believe that the season of Easter is about to come to an end. I love the season of Easter. It is a time when we sing hymns like “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” and we begin every worship time with the great Easter proclamation, “Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia!”…

A Little Help Please

Right off the bat, we have a question about our story today, don’t we? Who is this Judas, (not Iscariot) that Jesus is answering? Well, he is one of “The Twelve.” Actually he is one of the 14 disciples that are identified by name as being in the group of “The Twelve” according to the four Gospels. Yes, if you go and read each of the Gospels, you will discover that when it comes…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

I can’t remember exactly where, but there is a phrase that I read once that has always stuck with me. In the article I was reading, the author made the comment that, “The Holy Spirit often leads us places we do not want to go.” At the time, I was bothered by the statement because I thought, well,…

A New Kind of Love

As Jesus met with his disciples on that final evening, the night before he was crucified, he said, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another” (John 13:34). Love, love, love! How many times have we all heard this verse of Scripture? We all know it. In our lectionary we hear it at least once a year, on Maundy…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

Our son and daughter-in-law celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary this past Tuesday. That morning, Jill and I received a text from them wondering if we would be interested in having dinner with our two grandchildren while they went out to dinner to celebrate. Well, you don’t have to ask us twice if…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

The world is filled with voices trying to grab our attention, isn’t it? There are voices that want us to believe that we should be fearful of those that are different than us. There are voices that proclaim that unless we believe a certain way or act a certain way that God will not love us. There are voices…

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