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May 2, 2022
A Diluted Faith
Christ Is Risen! “It’s like trying to take an aspirin for cancer!” OK, that got my attention! The speaker was talking about the dangers of watering down the clear message needed for our group so that it wasn’t so discomforting. But his illustration really drove the point home that some problems need a fully potent dose of truth to be corrected. I admit it hit home with me, especially as I thought…
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April 29, 2022
Bright Friday – Hot Water!
Christ is risen! “What would Jesus do?” That phrase was popular a few years ago, and I confess to being amused by this fad of “easy religion.” One of the main reasons was that the life of Jesus is not easily categorized as the comfortable “Jesus” we moderns would prefer. You know the “Jesus” I’m talking about: The “meek” Jesus that pats everyone on the head and tells them they are “OK,…
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April 28, 2022
Bright Thursday – The Wind Blows!
Christ is risen! Ah, the beauties of Springtime! And the hay fever! For those of us susceptible to the reign of terror that is pollen season; the watery eyes, the stuffy nose, basically all the bad stuff on all the commercials we see for medicine to combat this scourge of this wonderful season; we love and hate this time of year! Especially when the wind is blowing around all that yellowish-green pollen…
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April 27, 2022
Bright Wednesday – Seeking Him
Christ is risen! “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” As I’ve had to shelter in place during this beautiful time of year, I confess, I’ve been tempted with despair but then I read the rest of the quote and I refuse to allow the temporary to drown out the Song of the Resurrection in my heart! This startling quote from…
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April 26, 2022
Bright Tuesday – Satan Falls Like a Star
Christ is risen! The young man was very frustrated. His dad had just gotten him a new hunting dog and this was the first time the young man had to train the dog himself. The process was a lot tougher than the boy realized and he was out of answers. You see every time the boy would point to a place the dog was supposed to go, the dog came up and…
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April 25, 2022
Bright Monday – He Is Made Known!
Christ Is Risen! What joy! What happiness! What a celebration! Words fail. Songs sung over and over again still cry out for more! Death is conquered by the Unconquered Son. O what news! The whole earth basks in the glow of the Victory of Christ over death! No more fear! No more night! The Son has dawned and there is no dead left in the grave! It all sounds like so much…
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April 24, 2022
Great and Holy Pascha – Christ is Risen!
Chris IS Risen! Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs, He has granted life. On this Holy Pascha, I’d rather share the words of St. John Chrysostom and his glorious Paschal Homily: “If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into…
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April 23, 2022
Holy Saturday – Don’t Hide From Death
We are a death-denying culture. In the US, the Funeral business is a $20 Billion industry employing over 13,000 people nationwide! And, in 2016 we crossed that line where over half of the American’s who passed away choose cremation over a burial. If we don’t choose cremation, we apply technics to the body to make it look less like a corpse. While all of this may seem to be honoring, and to…
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April 22, 2022
Holy and Great Friday – Destroying Death BY Death
On this Holy Friday: Let us pray to the Lord, O God and Father: How can the light of the sun pierce the terrible darkness of this day and its events? Your only Son, the true light, in the darkness of his ordeal, was pleased to embrace in his humanity the sufferings he could not endure in his divinity. And to what purpose, if not to prove that he considered us worthy…
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