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Returning Home

Remember the song “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree about a man returning home from prison? Returning home after a long absence is always a a stressful time. Imagine the return of the Prodigal Son. How would he be received? One of the best known of all of Jesus’ parables is the […]

02 March, 2016
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A Relentless God

If you mention Handel’s Messiah, there are two pieces that immediately come to mind–the Hallelujah Chorus and the Amen Chorus. One that sticks in my mind is “all we like sheep have gone astray.” It’s such a joyful piece. “Wow! Look at us. We’ve gone astray.” I

24 February, 2016
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What Happened to the Good Guys?

When I was a child a quarter went a long way. Fourteen cents would pay for the Saturday afternoon movie and a dime would buy a box of popcorn. For fourteen cents you got a newsreel, a cartoon, and a double feature. The movies on Saturday afternoon were westerns and the nice thing about westerns […]

17 February, 2016
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Marked with a Cross

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the season of Lent. Garrison Keillor once commented that for Lutherans it’s always Lent. But if we were to turn things around–look at it from the other end–we would be Living Lent as the People of the Resurrection. The question then would become “what is