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And then there’s the story that God tells. In the case of Joseph, there was an angel in a dream in the fitful sleep he had after he had arrived at his decision. “Joseph, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife. for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the […]

You have been faithful to God in every possible way. Everyone knows that you are the one to depend on for honest, upright work. Both in your construction work and in your God work. But you don’t think about how good you are, you just show up and do good work because it’s the right […]

God. We come to you today not wanting to inconvenience you. Like Ahaz, we do not want to ask you for the wrong amount of anything, The impossible to reach, The open-handed generosity you offer. We believe we are polite. We believe we do not deserve much, your humble obedient servants. But what we call […]

They died less than an hour apart in the same hospital. I’d met one, I’d never heard of the other. One death was sudden, one was not surprising. As I talked with their families, I learned that each had loved and was deeply loved. And their lives were remarkably different. You have to take my […]

The man was dying. Not actively, as we say when we are confident that death will come in less than hundreds of minutes. We were talking. The dying wasn’t as quickly as he wanted. He was thirsty. The medication and the pain were drying his mouth. He gestured with his head to a plastic cup […]