A Reflection for the Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
I picture Jesus' hometown family and friends squirming in their synagogue seats and craning their necks to see if he's coming up the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jul 3
- 3 min
Scripture Reading for July 7, 2024
Mark 6:1-13 6 Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 On the Sabbath he began to teach in the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 26
- 5 min
A Reflection for the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
There aren’t many Bible verses that bring tears to my eyes as quickly as the one that lies at the heart of this week’s Gospel reading:...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 25
- 3 min
Scripture Reading for June 30, 2024
Mark 5:21-43 21 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea....
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 20
- 6 min
A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Meditate on the Gospel Passage Mark 4:35-41 tells the story that inspired Rembrandt’s painting of The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Read...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Scripture Reading for June 23, 2024
2 Corinthians 6:1-13 6 As we work together with him, we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. 2 For he says, “At an...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 13
- 2 min
Scripture Reading for June 16, 2024
2 Corinthians 5:6-10 6 So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 13
- 6 min
A Reflection for Father’s Day
The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Forgot to get a gift for dad this Father’s Day? Well, you could just drop him off at The Home Depot...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Scripture Reading for June 9, 2024
II Corinthians 4:13-18, 5:1 13 Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we too believe,...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- Jun 6
- 4 min
A Reflection for the Third Sunday After Pentecost
It was 19 years ago, June 12 2005, that Steve Jobs delivered the Commencement Address at Stanford University. Speaking to the graduating...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 30
- 2 min
Scripture Reading for the Second Sunday After Pentecost
Mark 4:26-34 26 Jesus said to them, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 30
- 2 min
A Reflection for the Second Sunday After Pentecost
Life is so unpredictable, and yet we attempt to predict it. I check the weather on my computer or phone at least three times a day (which...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 23
- 6 min
A Reflection for Trinity Sunday
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 23
- 3 min
Scripture Reading for Trinity Sunday
Isaiah 6:1-8 6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 15
- 4 min
A Reflection for Pentecost Sunday
Acts 2:1-21 There are so many images in this week's Pentecost account that I find my imagination running in a couple of different...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 15
- 2 min
Scripture Reading for Pentecost Sunday | May 19, 2024
Acts 2:1-21 2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 9
- 6 min
A Reflection for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
It is no wonder that we Christians struggle. We are still in the world and thus we struggle with the evil in the world; we struggle with...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 9
- 2 min
Scripture Reading for May 12, 2024
1 John 5:9-13 9 If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that God has testified...
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 2
- 5 min
Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
It's All About Love
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Union Church of Cupertino
- May 1
- 2 min
Scripture Reading for May 5, 2024
1 John 5:1-6 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child....
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