As we enter into another church year we are reminded once again that God’s decisive involvement with our world starts with a baby. This may seem a huge leap from last week when we were celebrating how Jesus was king of the whole universe. But really it isn’t. Whether we think about kings or babies […]
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On the last day of our church year we step back and take a look at things from the widest perspective possible: The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. We consider Jesus to be not just a king, unlikely though that seemed to Pilate and pretty much anyone around (Luke 23:35-43).
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Malachi says “Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire” (Malachi 3:19-20a). Right on! We can get behind that – maybe particularly in situations where we feel things are not as they should
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A Feast about a church building, or more specifically the dedication of a church – that’s strange. If it were Saint Peter’s in Rome it might make a bit more sense. At least everyone has heard of that. Just as a Feast dedicated to a saint we’ve never heard of might lead us into an
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I’ve always liked the way that the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls come as a pair. All Saints seems to speak to the grandeur of church, the great sweep of history including the lives and deaths of so many extraordinary women and men. And we are part of that. We are amongst those
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