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  • Sunday Reflection – November 12, 2023

    Do not make yourselves important Matthew 25 The kingdom of heaven is like what happened one night when ten young women took their oil lamps and went to a wedding to meet the groom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps, but no extra oil. 4 The ones who were wise took…

  • Kids Korner: Be prepared, be ready (Nov.12th)

    Read Matthew 25:1-12 with your family. In the last chapters of the Gospel of Matthew, there are a lot of parables telling us that some will be left out of God’s promise. That has made Christians over our history think we are better than everyone else, and that is wrong. The people hearing these stories…

  • Sunday Reflection – November 5, 2023

    Do not make yourselves important Matthew 23 Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law are experts in the Law of Moses. 3 So obey everything they teach you, but don’t do as they do. After all, they say one thing and do something else. 4 They pile heavy burdens…

  • Kids Korner: Lead differently (Nov. 5th)

    Read Matthew 23:1-12 with your family. Jesus spent a lot of time telling the pharisees and other temple leaders to do a better job at leading the people. In this passage Jesus turn to the people and tells them to learn from the mistakes of those who are leaders in the temple, and when they…

  • All Hallowed, All Saints, All Souls

    Those of us in low church traditions are rarely taught about the three days of celebration that takes us from October 31st until November 2nd. We don’t learn about saints or our place in that number. Far too often we are taught to disregard anyone the high church traditions (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, etc) revere, calling…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 29, 2023

    Greatest Commandment & Who is the Messiah Matthew 22 34 After Jesus had made the Sadducees look foolish, the Pharisees heard about it and got together. 35  One of them was an expert in the Jewish Law. So he tried to test Jesus by asking, 36 “Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?” 37  Jesus answered: Love the…

  • Kids Korner: Loving ourselves (Oct. 29th)

    Read Matthew 22:34-46 with your family. What does it mean to be a Christian? Jesus answered that one: it means we have to love God above all else and love everyone else like we love ourselves AND we have to love ourselves like we love everyone else. Often people think there was only two parts…

  • Arrogance and presumptuousness of the Abrahamic traditions

    That’s a fancy title, but it gets at the heart of what I think is happening in the Middle East. Like almost everyone else in the world my news channels have been bringing stories of the happenings from kidnapping to humanitarian crisis, and all the terrorism in between. All of us are watching a crisis…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 22, 2023

    Give back to God the things that come from God Matthew 22 15 The Pharisees got together and planned how they could trick Jesus into saying something wrong. 16 They sent some of their followers and some of Herod’s followers to say to him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest. You teach the truth about what God wants…

  • Kids Korner: Give to God (Oct. 22nd)

    Read Matthew 22:15-22 with your family. Many people know this story, even if they don’t attend Sunday school or church regularly. But why was this a trick and why did Jesus know it was a trick? When Jesus was a small child, another person from Galilee named Judas (not any of Jesus’ friends and followers)…