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Good Stress Lectionary 18 December 2016 Fourth Sunday in Advent Isaiah 7:10-16 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-25 Text to Life All this talk about stress being bad for you makes me stressed. This seems to be the time of the year when we stress and fret...
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[Ed. note—Jaime was a close friend and colleague who served in the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. She died tragically last year, and this Christmas poem was one of the last things she sent me. I don’t know when she wrote it, but I send...
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“There can be no sadness when life is being born.” St. Leo the Great (400-461). Happy Birthday, Jesus. To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly, Coaching Membership, Coaching...
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“Christmas does not give us a ladder to climb out of the human condition,” Avery Dulles wrote. “It gives us a drill to burrow into the heart of everything that is, and there, find it already shimmering with divinity.” At Advent, flesh is enspirited and spirit is...
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“This story my own father told me years ago from his own experience as a teacher. It was near Christmas time and, as classes often do at that time of the year, various projects were being done relating to Christmas. My father was headmaster and went to visit a...
