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We pray that God will take ordinary things. Things like bread and wine and water and oil and use those ordinary elements to convey God's extraordinary grace and love. It matters. It matters that we recognize these gifts from God and it matters too that we acknowledge the reality of evil. I don't envision a return to three years preparation for bapt…
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For me, the third grade was probably one of the best times of my life. I could pick out my own Umbro shorts, scrunchie my own ponytail, And ride my bike freely around the neighborhood from sun up to dinner time, getting into some good and maybe not-so-good trouble with the other kids who lived nearby. I learned to cook, spent unnumbered hours creat…
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And then what happened is as many of you know, I had a sortof a conversion experience when I was 20 and I realized, oh gosh,dang, I do believe in God. This is real that I believe in God. And in fact, Ithink I'm Christian. I do believe in Jesus. And from the moment that thathappened, I felt this sort of need to prove some things. From the moment tha…
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This certainly is not unity. Is unity a difficult ask for today? Today America has become more divided than ever. For many, unity is viewed as a threat to peace. to one's personhood or individual identity altogether. Unity requires someone must win and someone must lose. Unity means a loss of freedom. Unity means a loss of merit or a loss of dignit…
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Now that this is my last Sunday with you, it's time for me to tell you my real name, because in so many ways, our name defines us, roots us in this world, gives us our identity. My real name isn't the name that my parents put on my birth certificate and that I was called at my baptism. It's the name my grandmother gave me when I was born. My father…
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We live in a time when the proclaiming of Christ's word maysometimes be used to divide us, not unite us. To judge us, separate us from one another. The distortion of Christ's message of lovemay be used to sound exclusive instead of the inclusive example Jesus actuallytaught and lived. Sometimes it feelsheartbreaking that truth and faith and love ca…
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When I was graduating high school, our yearbook staff held an election for hope in the form of our senior superlatives. You all may remember these from that time in your life. Each day at the lunch period, for a week, students could go to the special table in the lunchroom and cast their vote for their peers, that they felt were well deserving of a…
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I do believe Paul's point is easily made at the end of ourreading. And that is that God's power ismade stronger in our human weakness. Therefore, boasting and weakness allows for Christ's powerand grace to be made more evident. Or, in our English translation of this, it'sperfected. But why? Why is the divine'spower perfected in weakness? Maybebecau…
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