Month: March 2011

  • Jeremiah 32:16-44

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    Today’s Reading is Jeremiah 32:16-44. The passage can be easily structured by looking for signal words for new beginnings: Verse 16 “I prayed” Verse 26 “Then the LORD said to me” Verse 36 “The LORD, the God of Israel, said to me” So that leaves us with the following structure: 16-25 Jeremiah’s Prayer It’s is…

  • How the internet started

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    Creationism? Intelligent Design? Evolution? Here is one account of how the internet came to be: A revelation with an Incredibly Big Message (IBM): Well, you might have thought that you knew how the Internet started, but here’s the TRUE story … In ancient Israel it came to pass that a trader by the name of…

  • Jeremiah 32:1-15

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    Today’s Reading is Jeremiah 32:1-15. That was also the lectionary text for the twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Please listen to my sermon: At least they paid for it.

  • Isaiah 58:1-14

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    Today’s Reading is Isaiah 58:1-14. Have you ever been looking for social justice in the Bible? – Well today’s passage has a lot of it. And there is numerous other Biblical Foundations for Advocacy. Do you remember how last summer Serene Jones, President at Union Theological Seminary sent An Open Letter to Glenn Beck? Students…

  • Isaiah 55:1-13

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    Today’s Reading is Isaiah 55:1-13. Ludwig Feuerbach found that “Religion is the outward projection of man’s inner nature”. That is so true! Unfortunately faith is always in danger of becoming religious. Isaiah reminds us that God is bigger than any religious effort: “My thoughts,” says the LORD, “are not like yours, and my ways are…