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Geometric power: The circle church
The architecture of church buildings, despite Christianity’s institutional decline in the Western world today, continues to draw our attention. For the most part, these are beautiful buildings, appealing to the eye whose symbols etched in paint, glass and images conveyed … Continue reading
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The Passion of Christ – a Good Friday sermon
The heaviness of it all weighs on our souls. Good Friday is a sombre day. The tormented images of the torture and death of anyone, let alone Jesus Son of God, flash across our minds-eye in the hearing of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, blood, Christian, Cross, death, Easter, Eucharist, faith, God, Good Friday, good news, Holy Communion, hope, Isaiah, lament, Lent, letting go, life, love, Lutheran, Martin Luther, meaning, Passion of Christ, prayer, preaching, sacrament, sermon, story, suffering, suffering servant, surrender, transfusion, tridium, Worship
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Ordinary faithfulness
“Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also.” (John 12:25-26, … Continue reading
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Lent
All we need to do during this season of Lent, is just slow down a bit. Displaying a delightful play on words, this photo of Dorchester Ave in Ottawa suggests in the French language what drivers must do in the … Continue reading
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There’s a wild-ness to God’s mercy
“Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths … All your paths, O Lord, are steadfast, love and faithfulness To those who hold on to your promise …” (Psalm 25:4,10) When I walked fifty kilometers on the … Continue reading
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Leaning in
The man with the unclean spirit is ordered by Jesus to “Be silent!”[1] After Jesus speaks to him, the unclean spirit obeys, and leaves the man. The man is thus transformed, healed, made whole in this dramatic Gospel encounter with … Continue reading
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Traveling stones: a pilgrimage lesson in letting go
In the sixth century Saint Benedict said, “A monk should have death always before his eyes.”[1] ‘Death’ doesn’t need to refer only to our physical demise at the end of life but to any loss experienced in life. There are … Continue reading
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