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Monthly Archive for March, 2012

Lenten Sermon Series: Songs of Lent Authentic Sacrifice Psalm 51, NRSV Reflections What we have lost… is a full sense of the power of God — to recuit people who have made terrible choices; to invade the most hopeless lives and fill them with light; to sneak up on people who are thinking about lunch, […]

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Lenten Sermon Series: Songs of Lent Authentic Gratitude Psalm 107:1-3; 17-22, NRSV Reflections Gratitude… is a response to grace. The compassionate life is a grateful life, and actions born out of gratefulness are not compulsive but free, not somber but joyful, not fanatical but liberating.— Henri Nouwen pain, loss, brokenness still exist when gratitude is […]

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Lenten Sermon Series: Songs of Lent Authentic Direction Psalm 19, NRSV Reflections People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says “If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.” I do not think that is the best way […]

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Lenten Sermon Series: Songs of Lent Authentic Hope Psalm 130, NRSV Reflections Henri Nouwen wrote, “Many people suffer because of the false supposition on which they have based their lives. That supposition is that there should be no fear or loneliness, no confusion or doubt. But these sufferings can only be dealt with creatively when […]

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Lenten Sermon Series: Songs of Lent Authentic Trust Psalm 25:1-10, NRSV Reflections A moment of conscious triumph makes one feel that after this nothing will really matter; a moment of realized diaster makes one feel that this is the end of everything. But neither feeling is realistic, for neither event is really what it is […]

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