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When Praying Shapes Believing — The Life of Faith
The Life of FaithEaster 7A | John 17:1-11 One of the strange delights of the lectionary is spending half of the Easter season, not in the resurrection stories, but in John’s Farewell Discourse. At first glance, this seems really wrong. We aren’t just going back in time, but going back to Holy Week. It’s a little like gathering on Easter morning and hearing the Passion. There is a tone here we…
With the Communion of Saints
Easter 7A Acts 1:6-14, John 17:1-11
The book of Acts begins with an end.
It begins at the end of Jesus’s earthly ministry and his return to God. Much like Jesus describes in that tangled web of relationship we find in our gospel story from John.
So it begins with the end and then proceeds to a beginning. A new life and ultimately, a new faith.
And we receive this beginning between the Ascension,…
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John 17:1-11, The Altar of Incense
John 17:1-11, The Altar of Incense
[June 1, 2014] Today is Ascension Sunday, the last Sunday of the season of Easter. Once Pentecost marked the end of Easter but at some point in the medieval West it became a season of its own. This past Thursday was actually the fortieth day since Easter Sunday, when Luke tells us Jesus made his ascension departure from Mount Olivet, a Sabbath’s walk from Jerusalem. Today’s text is from the Gospe…
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Jesus Facepalm
By The Rev’d Curtis Farr
Easter 7A
“Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom of Israel?”
“Are we there yet?”
“I’m hungry.”
“I have to pee.”
Do you think Jesus slapped his forehead as he ascended into the clouds? He has spent so much time with his disciples talking about the kingdom of God this and the kingdom of God that, yet they still think Jesus was interested in the kingdom of…
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Jesus Facepalm
By The Rev’d Curtis Farr
Easter 7A
“Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom of Israel?”
“Are we there yet?”
“I’m hungry.”
“I have to pee.”
Do you think Jesus slapped his forehead as he ascended into the clouds? He has spent so much time with his disciples talking about the kingdom of God this and the kingdom of God that, yet they still think Jesus was interested in the kingdom of…
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