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Ian

6th Tuesday after Easter

Psalm 25, Isaiah 26:1–21, Acts 16:16–34 Imagine being the only person at a 4-way traffic light with no one else on the road. The light for you is red. And it’s still red. Most of us will wait a little bit. Some might rev their…

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5th Thursday after Easter

Mark 9:33–37, Acts 15:36-41, 1 Timothy 6:3–11 It is an amazing fact that you might have learned yourself: people are different, and don’t always agree. There are various kinds of disagreements, and it is not necessarily bad to disagree. In fact, it is often through…

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Unity Dream

Psalm 100, Ezekiel 37:15–28, John 10:14–18, Galatians 3:28 Unity is a powerful message, and it calls to the deepest parts of us. E Pluribus unum—Latin for "Out of many, one"—is the motto of the United States. In this motto is the desire that no matter…

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2nd Sunday after Easter

1 Corinthians 15:35–49, Mark 4:1-20, John 12:12-28 A life of holiness is a hard pill to swallow in many respects. We look around us and wonder how could any one of these fallen human beings be holy. When we look in the mirror and think…

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Perfect Perfectionism

Matthew 5:43–48, 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 Perfection. There are many well-meaning people that say perfection is the enemy of progress, profit, completion, excellence, or that perfection is the disease of a nation or a disguise of insecurity. Generally, however, it is not perfection that is the…

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