1st Sunday of Lent
Virtue Us: “Hope”
How we hope depends on our view of the future. For the ancients the world was cyclical and humans rose and fell over and over without end. But, for Christians, our hope is in Ch...
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Good News for the Poor: “Desire Mercy”
The parable of the good Samaritan is a story about movement: a man was going down, robbers appear, a priest is also going down, then a Levite, then a Samaritan. We see movement ...
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Gluttony: Life is More Than
Food and drink are good and necessary for the health of our bodies, but we can easily overindulge those appetites, placing our physical desires over our spiritual good. To comba...
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Squash Your Beef
One key attitude adjustment disciples need is to let go of grudges and being right. We need to prefer instead to swallow our pride so that our relationships can be restored.
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Dark Night of the Soul
Some times it can feel as if we have stepped through Alice’s looking glass. As a result up seems to be down and down, up. In that place even God can feel like an enemy. How does...
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Reconcilers and Rebels (or Goggles)
Pastor Jody invites us to examine the goggles we wear when it comes to women in ministry. It is important for women to have models of what they can become which is particularly ...
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