Advent Three - Making ourselves available to Joy
At last – something anticipating Christmas Joy! Indeed we are invited to prepare ourselves for eternal joy and gladness starting now...
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Reverend Sue
- Nov 29
- 5 min
Advent Two - Preparing for the Coming of God
Hopeful images of peace and tumultuous descriptions of disturbance, the longed for reign of God and yet our unreadiness for a life of...
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Reverend Sue
- Nov 22
- 5 min
Advent One - Awaken
Wake up. Get up. Clothe yourself in Christ. The day is near. (Advent One. Matthew 24:36-44; Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; and Romans...
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Reverend Sue
- Nov 15
- 4 min
Christ the King
What do we mean when we as church proclaim Jesus as Christ the King? (Luke 23:33-43; Jeremiah 23:1-6; Song of Zechariah; and Colossians...
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Reverend Sue
- Nov 8
- 6 min
A New Heaven here in our World
We are nearing the ending of the church year and we can sense that in our readings with themes of a coming new heaven and the...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 31
- 4 min
All Saints
All Saints is that gift of a festival in which we can remember the saints of our tradition and give thanks for their continuing witness...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 25
- 5 min
Seeking the One who is Seeking Us
The story of Zacchaeus shimmying up a tree to better see Jesus and then having Jesus invite himself to a long lunch (Luke 19:1-10. Twenty...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 18
- 5 min
Stripping Away the Layers of Resistance
One way of understanding the Christian spiritual growth journey is the unending stripping away of the layers of resistance, ego...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 11
- 4 min
Persistence as Spiritual Practice
Most of us have been taught that the parable about the unjust judge and the persevering widow (Luke 18:1-14, Nineteenth Sunday after...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 9
- 2 min
Gift of Incarnation: Worship Course
Advent is the season in which we prepare our hearts and minds, our homes and our churches, to welcome the Christ child, God Incarnate,...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 8
- 4 min
Advent Year A: Worship Course
Welcome to this online guide to Advent (Year A). I hope you experience this course not so much like a travel guide for the novice...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 4
- 5 min
The Ten Lepers
This story of the healing of the ten lepers and the one who says thank you to Jesus is so well known that we can miss the genius of the...
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