Shining Faith, Shining Life

December 22, 2024
How to respond to the news that God has specially favored you, made you acceptable to Him, because God is who God is?  How to respond when you’re told, by…
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According to Your Word

December 8, 2024
More than the other three tellings of the Jesus story, Luke keeps the angels before us.  Those angels are busy!  It’s as if most people had stopped really expecting anything…
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So Inconvenient

April 21, 2024
Now, everyone was always eager for Jesus to do some miraculous sign, some awesome work.  They weren’t looking for parlor tricks.  People around them were sick, crippled, blind, deaf, hard-hearted…
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The Light Rises

November 20, 2022
God’s Word concludes with a beginning.  It seems fitting to conclude our time with Luke, to conclude this liturgical year, with words from the beginning of Luke’s telling of the…
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Mary and the Word

October 9, 2022
I’m not sure whether Jesus lived in turbulent times or just sort of caused tumult wherever he went.  He definitely upset a lot of old, traditional notions and ways—those venerable…
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Expectation and Surprise

November 29, 2020
          Perhaps there are times when it seems, feels, like my preaching gets preoccupied with fallen humanity—those are the times, I guess, when it sounds like I’m ranting, judging, condemning,…
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