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Reverend Sue
Nov 29, 20225 min read
Advent Two - Preparing for the Coming of God
Hopeful images of peace and tumultuous descriptions of disturbance, the longed for reign of God and yet our unreadiness for a life of...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 22, 20225 min read
Advent One - Awaken
Wake up. Get up. Clothe yourself in Christ. The day is near. (Advent One. Matthew 24:36-44; Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; and Romans...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 15, 20224 min read
Christ the King
What do we mean when we as church proclaim Jesus as Christ the King? (Luke 23:33-43; Jeremiah 23:1-6; Song of Zechariah; and Colossians...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 8, 20226 min read
A New Heaven here in our World
We are nearing the ending of the church year and we can sense that in our readings with themes of a coming new heaven and the...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 31, 20224 min read
All Saints
All Saints is that gift of a festival in which we can remember the saints of our tradition and give thanks for their continuing witness...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 25, 20225 min read
Seeking the One who is Seeking Us
The story of Zacchaeus shimmying up a tree to better see Jesus and then having Jesus invite himself to a long lunch (Luke 19:1-10. Twenty...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 18, 20225 min read
Stripping Away the Layers of Resistance
One way of understanding the Christian spiritual growth journey is the unending stripping away of the layers of resistance, ego...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 11, 20224 min read
Persistence as Spiritual Practice
Most of us have been taught that the parable about the unjust judge and the persevering widow (Luke 18:1-14, Nineteenth Sunday after...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 9, 20222 min read
Gift of Incarnation: Worship Course
Advent is the season in which we prepare our hearts and minds, our homes and our churches, to welcome the Christ child, God Incarnate,...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 8, 20224 min read
Advent Year A: Worship Course
Welcome to this online guide to Advent (Year A). I hope you experience this course not so much like a travel guide for the novice...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 4, 20225 min read
The Ten Lepers
This story of the healing of the ten lepers and the one who says thank you to Jesus is so well known that we can miss the genius of the...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 27, 20225 min read
A spirit of power, love and self discipline
There is much in our outer world to lament, to fear, to regret. And there is much in our inner world to repent of, to let go of, and to...
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