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Sidewalk flowers: Experiments

Reflections for Lent 2019 – Day 9 I really hate it when an experiment is an unmitigated failure. Of course, I’m sure you could argue that an experiment is never a failure if you learn something from it. I get that. And yet… With lots of reflection over the course of this past year, weContinueContinue reading “Sidewalk flowers: Experiments”

Reflections of the Manger

The texts for Christmas Day, 2011: Isaiah 52:7–10, Psalm 98, Hebrews 1:1–12, and John 1:1–14 Christmas morning—thanks to inspiration from Nadia Bolz-Weber, the House For All Sinners and Saints, and Clayfire, as well as the texts themselves: “The Word became flesh…”—I didn’t preach a traditional sermon.  Instead, I introduced the Gospel by restating exactly thatContinueContinue reading “Reflections of the Manger”