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Month: December 2013

Trying to be accountable and mercy

  It has become common to discuss charitable giving during the holidays, so I  thought I would take advantage of that and talk about one of Saint Paul’s more intriguing statements about charity.  He says. “For I do not...

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Luther on John the Baptist

That bony finger of John the Baptist keeps poking it’s way into our Christmas celebration, or at least that is the way it seems.  There he is in the painting pointing to Christ the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the...

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Mercy and Witness in Chaos

To many pictures like this too many times.  Trying to imagine a panicked mom trying to get a hold of a child in a school that has an active shooter situation.  Seeing the images of the kids coming out and going through the...

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Who Did This?

 This is one of those things that bring me up short on occasion.  We decorated the All Faith’s Chapel and for years I have looked at and found interesting the above manger scene.  It is childish enough to be cute and yet...

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