Month: March 2016
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Our Conviction That Evil Will Not Win
Easter Sunday It is standard practice for Christians the world over to proclaim at Easter that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. My friends on the other side of the world have been posting Easter greetings on Facebook long before I got out of bed this morning. It is something we expect. It’s in […]
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Everlasting Memorial
Holy Thursday As much as I know that I will never truly know the mind of Jesus, especially at moments like this, I am tempted to let my mind wander. After all, Jesus was human like us. He experienced his humanity just as we experience ours. So we have a window into the workings of […]
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Raised to God’s Own Life
Fifth Sunday of Lent “I believe in the resurrection of the body” … so we proclaim when we make our profession of faith. But we sort of hope that things will be different when our bodies are raised to that new life, don’t we? Seriously, we look at our bodies right now. We know things […]
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The Truth We Refuse To See
Fourth Sunday of Lent “Many, many years ago there lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them. His only ambition was to be always well dressed.” Hans Christian Andersen tells the tale of how two scoundrels tricked an emperor, who was extremely vain […]
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