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Some Thoughts for April 28, 2024
Hearing the call, and seeing the need, can and will we respond? As most of you know, I am now in Seminary, studying ministry, hopefully...

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Apr 24, 20243 min read


A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
I have, as you likely have, heard more sermons on the tenth chapter of John than almost any other…, as we read portions of it each year...

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Apr 18, 20244 min read


Scripture Reading for April 21, 2024
John 10:11-18 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd...

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Apr 18, 20242 min read


A Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter
44 Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the...

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Apr 11, 20243 min read


Scripture Reading for the Third Sunday of Easter | April 14, 2024
Luke 24:36-48 (RSV) 36 As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them. 37 But they were startled and frightened, and supposed...

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Apr 10, 20242 min read


Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter
IMAGINATION WAS NOT Thomas's long suit. He called a spade a spade. He was a realist. He didn't believe in fairy tales, and if anything...

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Apr 3, 20243 min read


Scripture Reading for the Second Sunday of Easter | April 7, 2024
1 John 1:1-2:2 1 We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked...

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Apr 3, 20243 min read


Scripture Reading for Easter Sunday | March 31, 2024
Mark 16:1-8 16 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Mag′dalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salo′me, bought spices, so that they...

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Mar 27, 20242 min read


A Reflection for Easter Sunday
“Christmas has a large and colorful cast of characters including not only the three principals themselves, but the angel Gabriel, the...

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Mar 27, 20243 min read


A Reflection for Palm Sunday
Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to...

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Mar 21, 20242 min read


Palm Sunday Scripture Reading | March 24, 2024
Philippians 2:5-11 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard...

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Mar 21, 20242 min read


March 17, 2024 Scripture Reading
John 12:20-33 20 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida...

Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 14, 20242 min read


A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Lent
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad...

Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 14, 20242 min read


A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
Crux Est Mundi Medicina When I worked at Holy Cross Monastery (West Park, NY) in the late 80's and early 90's, my desk (in what is now...

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Mar 7, 20243 min read


March 10, 2024 | Ephesians 2:1-10 and John 3:13-21
Ephesians 2:1-10 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of...

Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 7, 20242 min read


Romans 4:13-25 and Mark 8:27-38
13 For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the...

Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 6, 20243 min read


A Reflection for the Third Sunday in Lent
Lent is the great spring-cleaning of the Christian life. It is the traditional season of prayer and fasting in preparation for the great...

Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 6, 20244 min read
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