Category: Pastor’s Message

A popular phrase tells us, “Good things come to those who wait.” That was surely the case for Mary Magdalene. She became the first one to see the resurrected Jesus. The Easter Gospel recounts the discovery that Jesus is risen. Peter and John see that Jesus’ bindings are on the ground and the burial cloth…
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Writer and artist Andy Warhol, back in 1968, first proposed the idea that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” That may be true, but fame doesn’t last. Hollywood is full of has-beens. History offers the folly: Napoleon crowning himself Emperor of France, and a few years later being exiled on a…
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Jesus wept. His human frailty was laid bare. The death of his friend and the tears of Martha and Mary overwhelmed him. In the Gospel story, Jesus is “greatly disturbed” as he approaches the tomb. Perhaps, for Jesus, the death of Lazarus, the entombment of his body and his rising is a powerful foreshadowing of…
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The man in today’s Gospel was born blind. Being born blind means never knowing colors, rainbows, beautiful sunsets and all the other wonders we see in the world around us. Subterranean animals like moles, bads and salamanders, which live in a world of darkness, have replaced vision with a super sense of smell. These creatures…
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