Sad, Glad, Soft, Loud, Stubborn Songs!

Based on Luke 1:39-56  What are your favorite songs? Everybody has some. Which are the songs that give you energy, bring a smile to your face, and pick you up? You listen to them on your iPod, or in your car or at home and you just feel better? U2’s Beautiful Day or Cee Lo’s […]

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Little Stories within the Big One

Based on Malachi 3:1-4 and Luke 1:68-79 The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?[1] The words of the character Pi in Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi. I am moved by […]

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Hope?

Luke 21:25-36:  The Fantasy of Hope The first Sunday of Advent is known as the first day of a new church year. Christian Churches [Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox] around the world start with the stories of the prophets and the gospels in late November/early December and then walk through the stories together, leading up to […]

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