All Meditations
Wisdom and the Parking Space
posted on Jan 7, 2013A few years ago, I served a church in Wichita, Kansas. The church, St. James, sat on the main drag through the city. Next to us, on the same side of the road, was the Roman Catholic Church. Our parking lots were divided only by a small side street...
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Courage at Christmas
posted on Dec 27, 2012Three hundred years after Jesus, a man posed an experiment. His name was Augustine and he wrote this experiment down in a book. People would read this book and ask themselves this question for hundreds and hundreds of years. The dilemma would shap...
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The Truth about Christmas
posted on Dec 18, 2012After Friday morning's tragedy, is there anyone here who does not believe that this world has fallen from God's grace? Is there anyone who still thinks that there is no such thing as sin or brokenness? Is there anyone who does not think that there...
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Practice Awareness
posted on Dec 3, 2012About seven years ago, a cat wandered into our driveway. At least, that is what Jacob, my son, tells me. We took the cat to the vet and the vet told us that she was a fine cat. We named her Cocoa.Cocoa was loving and sweet but she had one terrible...
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Listening to God
posted on Nov 12, 2012On Veterans Day, I often find myself thinking back to the wars that this country has struggled through and the suffering of our soldiers. I think of men and women who quietly died in prisoner of war camps in Japan, who bled in the deep jungle of V...
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Why doesn't God just fix us?: The story of a blind man
posted on Oct 29, 2012He had a father once. His father's name was Timaeus. We do not know what happened to his father. Maybe he was dead. Maybe he just could not deal with having a blind son. Everyone dreamed of having a son in Jesus' day. A son meant a future, someone...
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Eden and St Francis
posted on Oct 10, 2012Do you think that animals go to heaven?Here is my theory. Ask yourself this: who got kicked out of Eden at the beginning? Was it the animals?Only humans fell from harmony with God. Only humans have original sin. Only humans need to be baptized, to...
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Submission
posted on Sep 24, 2012Jesus' brother, James, wrote long ago to the early followers of Jesus, "Submit to God."I once counseled a man who at the age of forty had not yet married. The girl of his dreams was waiting for him, they had been dating for five years, but he woul...
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James and Generosity
posted on Sep 10, 2012James was Jesus' younger brother.I had a younger brother. I also have three sons, so I know the phenomenon of the younger brother. The younger brother, if healthy and outgoing, usually bothers the older brother. The younger brother is set to outdo...
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Words of Life
posted on Aug 28, 2012There is a video out on Youtube about a blind man. He is sitting on the sidewalk in a large city. He has placed a tin can in front of him and occasionally someone walking by drops in a coin. There is a cardboard sign beside him that reads, "Blind....
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Saint Thomas
Saint Andrew
The Feast of All Saints
St. Michael and All Angels