Tag: difference
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Paradox
This year, our Worship Committee sent out “star words” for Epiphany – which we celebrated a little early, on Sunday. “Star words,” according to the explanation we got in the mail, are words to “ponder all year long,” to pay attention to and meditate on during the course of the year, with the idea that…
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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our preacher of the day told us he was 12 years old before he realized that not all old people had Dutch accents. Up till then, he’d more or less assumed that people just started to talk that way as they aged, since all the grandparent-aged people he knew had Dutch accents. Because he grew…
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Even the Young Ravens Get to Eat
I cry in church a lot. I’m not the only one. Other people do it, too. We cry for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes because it’s just so beautiful, those words of that song, or that sermon. Sometimes because something touches a sad nerve, or a bittersweet memory. Or because we all of a sudden…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion (Daniel 1 8-21)
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, January 7, is Daniel 1:8-21. Here are a few questions we might consider in looking at that text (if they help): In v8, Daniel resolves not to defile himself with the royal food being provided to the recruits (see vv3-4). How would we characterize this decision – that is,…
Matters of Interpretation 