Tag: acceptance
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Experiencing Grace
Grace is all around us, all the time; we could experience it more often, if we got in the habit of noticing that. A sermon – text Luke 17:11-19 – from the Corydon Presbyterian Church yesterday. Luke’s story of Jesus healing 10 lepers is probably well known to us from stewardship seasons past. Because…
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Acceptance, Thankfully
Churches, like other organizations these days, have “retreats” and “planning meetings” and “visioning sessions.” Meetings where members get together and reflect on what seems to be going right and not right and where that seems to be headed, and in the case of the church, where God seems to be calling people. Our congregation has…
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Belonging [Surely … ]
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Last week the sermon focused on the “spirit of adoption” Paul talks about in Romans 8: For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 7 37-48
We are studying Luke 7:37-48 for Sunday, October 27. This is Luke’s version of the story of the anointing woman. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are a few questions we might want to consider as we explore this text: In v37, Luke identifies the woman as “a sinner.” Otherwise, all we know…
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Second Sunday in Lent
This morning, we thought long and hard about what “the good fight of faith” might actually mean. Our published curriculum said it was the fight against “all that was false,” and we thought that perhaps this amounts to a “fight against ourselves,” in particular because we are often tempted to seek goods other than God,…
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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This morning we talked some about what James meant by faith “saving you,” or not as the case may be. We looked up that place in Romans (it turns out to be Romans 3:28) where Paul says “we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law,” and then…
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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
1 Chronicles 21, upon reflection, focuses our attention on the issue of belonging – that is, who or what belongs to whom. The narrative begins with an opponent inciting David to take a census of Israel, which everyone involved seems to know is wrong. Why? One argument is that counting anything, in this case people,…
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Power Supply
The power supply to the laptop started sizzling and smoking in the middle of the Session meeting tonight. It was one of those horrifying situations the full horror of which only dawned on my consciousness slowly, like a monstrous movie octopus. The deadline tomorrow. The deadline Sunday. The class on Monday. How long it took…
Matters of Interpretation 