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• April 28, 2007

  My Sheep Hear My Voice

  Jesus says in John’s gospel, “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me” but, we must admit that we hear a lot of voices in our day to day life. Voices telling us what we need, what we should buy, and even how we should think. In that great cacophony, how…

• April 7, 2007

  The Stone Was Rolled Away

  I have been thinking about the stone that was laid over the entrance to Jesus’ tomb. The Stone was not a door to be opened and closed and opened and closed. Once it was closed, it wasn’t meant to be moved again. It was big and heavy and it was meant to keep the wild…

• March 10, 2007

  Bad News and Good Fruits

  Sometimes I stop and ask myself why I bother reading or watching the news. It is quite a sad thing these days because so much of what I read or see is about death, dying, fear and suffering. When I read or hear this stuff, I react in so many different ways. Sometimes when I…

• January 26, 2007

  Open Box, Open Church, Open Heart

  We have all heard of the expression of warning about opening “Pandora’s Box.” The story of Pandora’s Box comes from a story in Greek Mythology and it is a story about a divinely created woman, Pandora, who is sent to be the bride of Epimetheus. Now there are many versions of the mythological story(read here…

• January 8, 2007

  A Moment of Clarity

  I can’t help it but when I think about Epiphany and the star that the Wisemen followed, I think about the night sky and the stars and the moon, and space. It was a few months before I was born that Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon. As a kid growing up, space and…