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April Fool’s Day Easter Sunday
“We are fools for Christ” 1 Corinthians 4:10 Easter Eggs and Easter Jesus Compare and Contrast in Eleven Parts: You Choose Rolling Fathers help their children roll Easter eggs along the ground; The Father of Jesus rolled away the stone and raised his dead son from the ground of the tomb. Colors Easter eggs come in many colors; Easter Jesus comes and saves people of all colors! Hard-boiled Easter eggs are hardboiled; When life around us is hardboiled the love of Easter Jesus can be soft and cuddly. Shells Easter egg shells crack and then we throw them away as imperfect and not pretty enough; Easter…
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Last Day of Lent
Reflection of the Day: It is profoundly tragic that the last day of Lent is referred to as Spy Wednesday after Judas, the traitor who takes his own life in remorse. This makes even more compelling the celebration of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. Out of the depths I cried…. And the Lord heard my cry… Tip: Use your tongue today to speak a gentle, not condemnatory word of encouragement to someone who seems down or depressed. Click here for today’s reading. Verse: Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, That I might know how to speak to the weary a word…
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Stay the Course through Holy Week
Reflection of the Day: A wise colleague often says, “When climbing the mountain, it’s good to look back periodically and see how far we have come.” Today is the symbolic 39th day of Lent. We’ve come a long way. Only one more day remains of our Lenten discipline before we enter into the great celebrations of our Christian faith. Tip of the Day: Recommit to making the time to celebrate the great feasts of the Lord’s Supper (Holy Thursday), Passion (Good Friday) & Resurrection (Easter). Click here for today’s reading. Verse of the Day: Isaiah 49:1-6 Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing,…
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His Presence is Always Found
Reflection of the Day: There is so much humanity in God’s world. Isn’t that the story of creation? As one of the stories goes, it was God’s garden and He made us humans and put us in it. It was a neat place with lots of good things and everything in order. Then things got messed up by “apple-gate” – as I like to call it. After that things weren’t so good and humans had to live in a big bad disordered world outside the garden. God didn’t abandon us, but he made it harder to figure things out by allow things to get pretty messed up and now…
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Pass on the Power of Prayer
Abraham is Father and Patriarch to Jews, Christians & Muslims. God told our Father Abraham that he and his descendants must keep his covenant throughout the ages. I can’t speak for other ages, but our age is not doing so well. How can we, the “People of the Book”, betray our roots and our God so often in the way we discriminate and express hate and carry out violence toward those who are not of our religion? For those Christians, we best make our attitude toward Jews and Muslims a serious examination of our consciences as we enter into Holy Week. The prayers and readings of Good Friday and the…