Simeon & the Christ Child – What the Christmas Story Tells Us about Serving Life
“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared i...
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Take Action – Life Ministry at Christmas
Each month we will offer a list of action ideas so you can defend, honor, and celebrate Life in your churches and communities on our Take Ac...
God’s Gift of Life – How an Unplanned Pregnancy Changed the World
A young, unmarried woman receives very unexpected news. Her fiancé does not handle it well. She anticipates the scorn of her close-knit, religiou...
Obedience: Truth Talk
What rises up in you when you hear the word obedience? Is it fear? Contempt? Refusal? Rebellion? Indifference? Trust? Perhaps you flash back to a...
The Gospel Tells Us Who We Are
In Christian teaching we often mix up the idea of imperatives and indicatives—commands and truths. Some of us think that imperatives threaten our...
In the Tomb with Lazarus: Jesus and the Sacredness of Life
The stage seems set for a dramatic moment in Christ’s ministry. He had been traveling from town to town, alternately threatened and worshipped, p...
Sunday, December 24, 2017 – Fourth Sunday of Advent
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a ma...
Sunday, December 17, 2017 – Third Sunday of Advent
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not den...
Sunday December 10th, 2017 – Second Sunday of Advent
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is no...
Sunday December 3rd, 2017 – First Sunday of Advent
Mark 13:24-37 What is Jesus Doing? In 2007 Andrew Purves, during one of my Canonical oral examinations for ordination in the Diocese of Pittsburg...