Naaman has control issues.

Naaman is a successful army commander of Aram, a powerful confederation of states that vied with Israel for control of the region in the first millennium before the Common Era.  He has leprosy.  And he has a servant girl from Israel who knows that God heals. Read More...
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So, if gospel means “good news,” how come we find more hard words in our reading from Luke this Sunday?!

Jesus is talking to the disciples as the journey toward Jerusalem and his passion, death, and resurrection.  He’s asking them to follow him.  This is his sales pitch?!  “…nowhere to lay his head.”  “…(Not) fit for the kingdom of God.”   Read More...
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Our reading this week from the book of Acts is a redundancy.

 Luke tells us again the story he just told in chapter 10: Peter has a vision that
breaks open his thinking about what is acceptable to God, Cornelius has a
vision that leads him to Peter, and a whole Gentile family comes to know
the saving power of God’s grace in Christ.
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God who made the stars, galaxies, suns and this fragile earth

To think that our God will wipe away the tears of those who come out of the great ordeal is an awesome thought. Humbling. Read More...
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Funny stuff from Sunday School

Fun Stuff from Sunday School - read on... Read More...
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