It’s The Church That Makes Us One
Dear Brothers and Sisters, This is our second week on our series called Half-Truth. We were saying last week that half-truths have some element of truth in them, but not completely. If we buy into these half-truths of the culture then we find ourselves in a place where we don’t want to be. Last week…
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Half-Truth: There Are Many Ways To God & It Does Not Matter Which One
Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are starting a new series today called Half-Truth. Over the next five weeks we are going to look at some popular beliefs in our culture that are half-true. They are somewhat right, but not fully. They contain an element of truth but in leaving out the rest of the truth…
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He Lifts Us Up To Cleanse Us
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our church renovation is not about just having a prettier church and more efficient building but about the vision we have as a church to be a community of communities where we can have a personal friendship with Christ, and help many others to do the same. We want to go…
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This Man Stands Before You Healed
Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is our fourth week in our series called Vision. And we are aiming to paint a vision of where God wants us and our parish to be over the next several years. I have a vision and I want to make sure we all have the same vision of where…
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In The Name Of Jesus Christ I Say To You: Rise and Walk!
Dear Brothers and Sisters, This is the third week of Easter and we have been saying that without the resurrection we would be only social workers or do-gooders, but not able to overcome the deaths of life. This is the vision that God has for us and it would be a shame to miss it. …
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So That You May Believe
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Christ has Risen! Truly Risen! This is the greeting of Eastern Christians for this wonderful Season of Easter, as we were saying last week to everyone and especially those who had come perhaps for the first time in a while. Christ is alive today and has a wonderful power to transform…
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He’s A Different Kind Of King
Dear Brothers and Sisters: Lent we have been saying these past five weeks is a time to see the face of God, to understand better who he is and how he works in our life. Starting with Palm Sunday we, hopefully, continue to walk with Jesus this week. Today we celebrate his triumphal entrance into…
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When The Grain Of Wheat Dies, It Produces Much Fruit
Dear Friends, In Lent we have been speaking about various needs that we have as creatures in this series called “Needy.” We have a need for God that can easily be covered over in our culture today. We also have a need for work, even if we are independently wealthy, and the need for rest…
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To Be Healed Look Up To Him
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our series called “Needy” looked last week at the need to rest and the need to work. I pray that it helped us to see that work is not a curse but a calling where we can serve others and find the Lord. God made us to work so that we…
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God Worked And Rested On The Seventh Day
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our third week of our series called Needy the first reading reminds us of our need to work and to rest (Exodus 20: 1-17). As we have been saying, Lent is a time to look for God, to see his actions in my daily life, and it is easy to…
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