Bound in Love

Man and Wife, Claimed by Christ, Bound in Love, Stumbling toward Heaven

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  • The King is Coming as an Infant

    This is the fourth and last Sunday of the season of Advent. Advent is the season in the church year when we anticipate the coming of the King. The King is coming. We know he is coming in the flesh in just a few days, when he comes as a little baby born in a Continue reading

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  • There was a movie a few years back starring Clint Eastwood and some Hmong immigrants that has parallels with our readings from Scripture this week. In the movie Gran Torino, Clint is a retired autoworker featuring all the standard stereotypes: he’s surly and disgusted with the kids of today, he is resentful of the decline of Continue reading

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  • Sandal Up

    For the readings, please see this link: 14th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF The story from the Gospel of Mark is one of commission. Jesus tells the 72 apostles (the Greek word means “one who is sent”) to go out among the communities and preach the good news. They are not to dilute their Continue reading

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  • It is hard to see Him

    For the readings, please see this link: 12th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF Jesus asked the disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” He does not ask us what we did or did not do, only to put a name on our relationship with him. For he knows that what we do or Continue reading

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  • Why We Weep

    For the readings, please see this link: 11th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF In the Gospel reading we hear the story of the sinful woman who bathes Jesus’ feet with her tears, and we hear Jesus rebuke the Pharisee who holds in his heart judgment of the woman. Connected to this story from the Continue reading

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  • Rules vs. Revelation

    For the readings, please see this link: 10th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF I found a new way to make my morning commute a bit easier, as the stoplights and people moving from parking decks to office buildings in Midtown Atlanta can make the last quarter mile an enervating finale to what otherwise is Continue reading

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  • The New Jerusalem

    For the readings, please see this link: 5th Sunday of Easter Readings PDF Our readings for this Sunday are set in the past, present and future around the continuing celebration of the Risen Lord in the season of Easter. We reach back in the Gospel of John to the words of Jesus to his disciples after Continue reading

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  • The Price of Love

    For the readings, please see this link: 3rd Sunday of Easter Readings PDF In the season of Easter, we read from the Acts of the Apostles instead from one of the books of the Old Testament, and we read from the Revelation of John instead of from one of the Epistles. In this joyful season of Continue reading

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