Category: Pastor’s Message

Fleeting popularity is heady stuff. The current deluge of talent shows on television produces new stars and idols faster than we can remember their names. Some may enjoy lasting careers. But for others, it may just be their 15 minutes of fame. As Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, the crowds were cheering. He was…
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One of writer Ramona C. Carroll’s most well-known faith quotes is: “Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.” In today’s Gospel, Jesus does not ask the Father to save him from the hour of his death. Even as he foretells his death on the cross, Jesus…
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At the close of their program each day, “PBS Newshour” presents the names and photographs of soldiers killed during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their images flash before our eyes in powerful silence. All of these thousands have given their life for our country. They died for us, and we never knew them. It…
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The image of the Temple filled with crowds, moneychangers, animals and birds for sacrifice was an assault on the senses: the sight of cages and holding pens; the sounds of bleating, flapping wings and shouting voices, the smells of manure, urine and smoke. It was also a place where the complicity between Roman taxes, priestly…
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Sir Isaac Newton, the 18th century English mathematician and physicist, said this about discovery: “I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” For Jesus’ disciples, that clear light took place on the mountaintop in today’s…
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