I spent my usual piano practice time today instead out piddling and hoeing in the Prayer Garden beside our house. The garden was commissioned as a private chapel in 2009 following the passing of our next door neighbor and very dear friend, Jean. She loved the outside, and kept bird feeders and baths, and built ...
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I have heard some dullard preachers in my day, hopefully more times than I have been accused of being one. A real low point in ministerial skill came when I heard a preacher adamantly refuse to allow the hymn “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” be sung in his church. He thought that the idea ...
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After Easter Sunday, the Easter “Season” is not quite over, not by a longshot! In the Christian Church, what follows the story of the Passion of Christ is the time that the returned Christ walked among his followers until ascending into heaven, to sit at the right hand of God, as the Nicene Creed says. ...
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Do you ever feel in your life as if you have looked to the cross TOO much? You have seen so much suffering, so much physical and emotional blood spilled that when it comes time for the Good Friday story of the beating and the death of Christ, you need to look away – look ...
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Maundy Thursday is the Christian commemoration during Holy Week of the great mandatum (mandate) from Christ, the New Commandment that supersedes all the others: I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. (John 13:34, NRSV) Something that gets skipped over ...
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