The seemingly coincidental encounters Jesus had with many of the people we hear about in Scripture (i.e. Zacchaeus, the woman with the hemorrhage, the blind man, the lepers) were hardly coincidental…
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Everything about Advent points to the future. Here are some thoughts about that. First, getting to the future means waiting. You have to wait. Mary had to wait, and Joseph, too. He had to wait because he's the one who will give the baby His name.
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We are about to celebrate thanksgiving as a civil holiday. We symbolize in this celebration that we are a nation "under God," and a people gathered from the east and from the west, from the north and the south, and made one nation. Let's make sure we are grateful by checking in on the three crucial steps.
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In my encounters with the faithful, everyone seems to express a longing for a better relationship with God. Most of them have some kind of difficulty with prayer. Finding time to pray or making prayer time meaningful are common struggles.
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Regrets...we all have them somewhere along the way: Actions that we've done or not done wishing we could have a "do-over" to choose differently…
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