Joseph – The Dad of Jesus. He gets left out of the Christmas story quite a bit as he seems to be there to uproot Mary and get her off to Bethlehem for a tax census and then scoot her out to Egypt, and that’s about it. We know he was an older man with ...

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Peter writes: Watch over those who are entrusted to you, not simply as a duty,     * but with gladness of heart.     * According to God’s will. 1 Peter 5:1-4 Keep the Faith! – Amen       (The asterisk marks shown above are breath marks. As used when reading Psalms aloud, at that mark you ...

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We lost our dear Buster late in the spring to old age and old dog diseases (he was 14 and well beyond his time for a grayhound.)  It just two weeks after we’d lost my mother in-law to cancer. She was one of my bestest friends and a great cancer buddy. The Cancer took them ...

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I’ve not added on to the ever-growing “Prayers of Our People” in a while, and today I have two additions which aren’t as strongly LGBTQ as some of the other stanzas. If there is any group of people on the planet these days who really need our continuing prayers, it’s the Christians. Clarity, discernment, and ...

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