Tag: Golden Rule
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Guilt
Be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves James 1:22 Have you ever just not wanted to do something right then? I was sitting in my chair, doing my morning reading, snuggled in a blanket for the first time this season with my feet propped up and the little dogs in…
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Can I Skip the Wild Heart?
Brown, Brené. Braving the Wilderness: the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone. Vermilion, 2017. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] Our congregation has been studying Braving the Wilderness together for the past several weeks, as a next step in our participation in the Golden Rule 2020 project. [We finished up…
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All Saints’ Day
Technically, All Saints’ Day is November 1. We don’t have worship on Friday, though, so we observed it today. It was one of those complex days, when a lot of ideas suddenly fit together and make sense in a new way just because of one or two words or a sentence. It could have been…
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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Here’s a sermon for Sunday, October 30 on 2 Chronicles 28:8-15 – a little late: Sunday, October 30, is “Reformation Sunday.” The Protestant churches in the Christian family celebrate this occasion as the anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his famous 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, sparking a debate about what…
Matters of Interpretation 