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Welcome Home to the Center of the World

Throughout the Easter season, we have been reading daily excerpts from the Acts of the Apostles.  Now we are only a few days away from celebrating the Feast of Pentecost, …

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Mission Accomplished

You notice we have three stained glass windows from the old church here, representing the Resurrection, the Ascension and Pentecost.  Scripture scholars tell us that Christ’s resurrection, his Ascension and …

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Good News Renews

For the past several weeks we have heard how the core message of salvation through Jesus had spread rapidly in the early church from one follower of Christ to new …

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Not Goodbye, but Au revoir

To say “goodbye” is to die a little – so goes a French axiom.  Jesus doesn’t say that exactly in this gospel, but we can understand its truth from what …

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Raising the Curtain on Act Two

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Have you ever arrived for a school play or a play on Broadway after Act One has begun so that you had to …

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Our Unfulfilled Yearning Is For God!

If Paul were speaking to us he would have to speak differently. In place of altars to unknown gods we have spas, gyms, spiritual centers, arenas, nature preserves… where, through …

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Turning the Tables

A famous Presbyterian minister of the 19th century, Henry Ward Beecher, once received a letter in the mail and when he opened it, there was but one word on the …

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