Tag: Christ

Today we commemorate the Holy Innocents. We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace; through…
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There is nothing better than good news! It does not matter how it comes, snail mail, telephone, face to face, television, text or even instant messaging… we love good news. Better still, is getting good news when it’s unexpected. We love surprises even more; if it is good news, that is. Take for example, the…
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Advent 2025 Week 2 This week, week 2, of Advent  we light the candle of peace. In honor of this week, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee, and sleepily staring out our window at the misty meadow engulfed in fogginess, I noticed a dove. A dove! He sat in a nearby tree…
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Advent is more than the light of burning luminaries… Advent is here! Tomorrow, Sunday, November 30, 2025 Sunday, the season of Advent begins. I think Advent has to be my favorite time of year. When leaves burnt scarlet flutter earthward and the temperature drops low, I find myself being drawn to candles. Candles fascinate… Remember…
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Today in the Anglican liturgy, psalms 37 is highlighted. This is a great song. Moreover, it’s an even greater prayer. This is a mighty prayer for the saints of the Lord to pray, as we witness and experience, evil in the streets. Innocents and the vulnerable being targeted. In my own strength, it makes me…
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As with any oldster, I miss the past. I miss a different time, perhaps a different world. I miss it terribly! In retrospect, I think more than anything, I miss the blessed naïve ignorance of youth, when life seemed simple and good, without threat or risk or life-altering challenges. The world I remember was full…
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This is a little piece of something I wrote back in early September 2022. Rereading the original, the words inspired me and spurred creative thoughts toward our very good God who is with us during these troubled times… It is easy to forget God is with us but, you know, I think that now, more…
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On Wednesday in an interview with Fox News, JD Vance (see link below) uses the parable of the good Samaritan to explain the MAGA isolationism policy. If you don’t know the story, this is it in a nutshell. Luk 10:30  Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who…
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This Sunday, the season of Advent begins. During Advent, the first candle, the Candle of Hope will be lit to shine forth into a dark and hopeless world. Regrettably, many who light this candle do not have hope.

“Do not be afraid; for I know you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly” (Matthew 28:5-7).