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Mustard Seed Faith
This past week we all received a just and well-deserved scolding from a sixteen-year-old girl from Sweden. Greta Thumberg at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back…
Read MoreJerusalem, We Have a Problem
We have here one of the most problematic parables that Jesus was ever said to have uttered. It would have not been surprising, upon listing to this parable, for one of the disciples to have muttered, “Jerusalem, we have a…
Read MoreMissing
We have all lost something from time to time. I could sure identify with my dad this last month. I remember that we would scour his bedroom hunting for a lost hearing aid. The search would soon move into the…
Read MoreLIFE AND GOOD, DEATH AND EVIL
There’s an old freedom song from the 60s we used to sing. Sometimes, still, I hear it today. When I read todays passage from Luke’s gospel, that old song bubbled right up in my mind. Ain’t gonna let nobody turn…
Read MoreStrive to Enter the Narrow Gate
Strive to enter the narrow gate. That sounds like a lot of work. Actual effort. I must confess that my early college career was not stellar by any sense of the word. I can still hear my kindly German teacher,…
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