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The end of the matter
2019 closes out. 2020 looms large. In all of it, with politics and anger, frustration, joy, loss, and victories… it is refreshing to me to end the year in Bible reading with Revelation. The end of the matter is summed up well here:
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Top posts of 2019
The Prophetic Voice Raised Becoming Anglican Anti-Racist It’s been a good year. It is my hope to keep on blogging, keep on challenging as I am being challenged, and share the growth I hope I am receiving in my walk with Christ.
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Two books
There are two books to finish this year. They both challenge me in issues of judicial injustice and racial justice.
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Feast of Holy Innocents
We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in…
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Christmas prayer
O God, you have caused this holy night to shine with the brightness of the True Light: Grant that we, who have known the mystery of that Light on earth, may also enjoy him perfectly in heaven; where with you and the Holy Spirit he lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
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God with us
Some thoughts from last Sunday’s sermon from Taylor Ishii, our church’s youth pastor. “God will stop at nothing to be with us.” Also, a quote (in my paraphrase) he gave from Stan Hauerwas: “What shouldn’t stun us is that Mary is a virgin but that God won’t abandon us.” May we be reminded of the stunning truth of this season:…
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The follow up on Christianity Today’s editorial
Last week Christianity Today posted an editorial calling for the removal of the president. Well, a lot has happened since then. It got Trump’s ire in some tweets and then some responses from the “right” and the “left.”
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Oh… hell
Some cheery Christmas thoughts from my favorite Advent writer, Fleming Rutledge:
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God is not silent
“The Christian faith has not been invented in order for us to claim for ourselves a powerful God who will push the delete button on all our enemies. The Christian faith is, rather, grounded in the story of that One who, against all human reason, emptied himself of his glory and came into our desert places, midnight to the north…
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To you all hearts are open…
There is a collect for purity where we pray, in part, “O Lord, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid…” This is Advent.
