All Meditations
Showing His Scars
posted on Apr 28, 2014Happy Easter!Did you know that the Risen Christ appeared in the dark, at night?A few nights ago, JD heard that a man had tried to kill a police officer and was now on the loose in Jacksonville. We locked all the doors to our house and let our bla...
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Easter and the Heart of a Child
posted on Apr 21, 2014My son Max has fears at night. I talked to him about mentioning his fears to you this morning. I told him that I didnt have to share them with you. "Will it only be at the six o'clock service?" he asked. "Yes," I answered. "Well, that is OK," he s...
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Hard Core Love: A Palm Sunday Sermon
posted on Apr 17, 2014Last week, I went to Richmond, Virginia to preach at St. Stephens Church. A beautiful church, it is located in a historic neighborhood full of gorgeous homes. The azalea bushes were just blooming and the weather was perfect. The congregation is hu...
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Praying Big
posted on Mar 23, 2014I got scammed this week. I went online to find out about a summer camp at one of our local universities and the University asked me to complete a survey and I would get a reward. So I filled out the survey about how I was visiting the website and...
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To be Born Again
posted on Mar 17, 2014When I was in college, I went to see a self-help guru. We met in his house with my then boyfriend and he told me a bunch of stuff and I needed to work on and I had no idea what he was talking about. It was one of the strangest conversations of my ...
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The Conversation
posted on Mar 11, 2014Do you believe in the devil?CS Lewis says that there are two fundamental mistakes we can make about the devil, one is to ignore his existence and the other is to spend too give him too much attention.I knew a woman once who talked about the devil ...
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Ashes to Go?
posted on Mar 11, 2014Good afternoon, General Seminary. It is such an honor to be with you on this Ash Wednesday. Since most of you are reading a lot, you are well aware of the existence of the Lectionary and the trouble that scholars and priests go to to select readin...
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Unfinished Houses
posted on Feb 24, 2014JD and I moved to Kansas in 2002. We bought an old home, built in 1917, in the neighborhood of College Hill in Wichita, Kansas. The home was large and drafty and needed constant work, but it was full of personality and full of history. The Murdoch...
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Simeon and Answers to Prayers
posted on Feb 5, 2014A woman was considered unclean for forty days after the birth of a son. Once the forty days were over, she and her husband were to take the child to the temple in Jerusalem, where they were to offer up a sacrifice of thanksgiving for the child. If...
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Pain and the Power of God
posted on Jan 21, 2014This past Wednesday, I had an incredible experience. I got to spend the morning with Scott Brown, an art historian and professor at UNF who is teaching the Bible Challenge with me. Scott took me to an exhibit at the Cummer Museum on The Mother of ...
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Saint Thomas
Saint Andrew
The Feast of All Saints
St. Michael and All Angels