Today’s Scriptures describe some callings that seem out-of-the-ordinary, some that seem rather unspectacular. But every vocation is extraordinary and every believer has one. Do you know what your calling is?
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The more you access the gift, the more you get. The more you get, the more you go back to the source. What are the gifts that keep on giving? You have to listen to the sermon, of course, to find out.
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Regardless of the way a person gets wet, the meaning of baptism is total immersion into the life, and death, and resurrected life of Christ. The question is, “How wet do you want to get?”
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Breaking News! In giving Jesus His name, God is telling us something important about the role He will play in the developing story of his love for the world.
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Man is a hungry creature, and we’re given two clues in the Gospel that the child born in Bethlehem’s manger is the one who can satisfy our deepest longing.
“Your (Advent) mission, should you chose to accept it” is to answer the same question asked of John the Baptist. “Who are you? Let us have an answer…” In what ways has God chosen you to witness and testify to the ultimate truth in your life?
St. John the Baptist had the enormous task of building a highway for the coming Messiah. But he had the earth-moving tools of Repentance and Forgiveness, strong enough for the Judean wilderness and strong enough for the human heart.
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Today’s Gospel offers three points about the Second Coming: that Jesus will certainly return, that no one knows the time of his return, and that we must therefore always be ready to meet him.
Today’s passage from Ezekiel shows how the exiles in Babylon had a long way to go to get over their pagan pessimism and get on with trusting the Lord. The God of the Bible doesn't do Fate. He does Faithfulness.
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What all of our Scriptures have in common today is the theme of astonished wonder. St. Paul even leaves off from his logical persuits and breaks out in praise. Fr. DeWees helps us look at our lives, to see whether or not we are too seasoned and sophisticated to be amazed by God's grace.
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Third in a series of Sundays that focus on Jesus’ parables of the kingdom, Jesus likens the kingdom of heaven to leaven, hidden in the dough. Fr. Houk thinks Jesus has a small beginning, huge transformation, and something shocking in mind.
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Another parable and another challenge to Jesus’ contemporaries. Of course, we might be challenged as well when Jesus’ teaching offends our ideas of how the kingdom of heaven should be, but the “sons of the kingdom” are those who struggle to see how mercy and justice, grace and judgment, come together in Christ.
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Jesus’ contemporaries expected an immediate, Israel-only, irresistible kingdom, but Jesus’ parable give us the inside scoop about how the kingdom comes.
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There is no way to avoid burdens in life. But Jesus’ yoke has nothing to do with the burdens of guilt and shame, and whatever we are called to bear, coming to Jesus means that he will bear it with us.
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“Burdens and Yokes and Jesus”(Fr. David Houk)
July 3, 2011 (St. Matthew 11:25-29) There is no way to avoid burdens in life. But Jesus’ yoke has nothing to do with the burdens of guilt and shame, and whatever we bear, he bears it with us.
As a priest who was ordained to the diaconate on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist and a parish that bears the name of St. John, much of our shared identity is caught up in this colorful character. In this message, Fr. Corley bids farewell to St. John's, and explores the implications of bearing his name.
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What is at stake when people dispense with the masculine language—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—we are given for God in Holy Scripture? Is calling God "Mother" progress or pagan reversion? And how do all these theological ruminations speak to the earthly vocation of those who are fathers?
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The Christian feast of Pentecost fulfills the Hebrew feast of Pentecost. As such, this day has something to say to us about harvest (what God will do) and the Holy Spirit (how he will do it).
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Love plays a central role in St. John's account of Jesus' resurrection. And there's even good news for those of us who aren't naturally centered in love.
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The cure for coveting is thinking about why we want so desperately what we want, and then preaching the Gospel to ourselves. For in Christ, we have all we need.
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If our words really matter, if our relationships with fellow human beings really matter, three questions should govern what we say about another person. Is it kind? Is it true? Does it need to be said?
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LAW & ORDER 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor (Fr. David Houk)
April 10, 2011. (Exodus 20:16) If our words really matter, if our relationships with fellow human beings matter, three questions should govern the things we say about others. Is it kind? Is it true? Does it need to be said?
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