Grant Batchelder

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(Hebrews 12:12–29) Dear friends in Christ, Hebrews was written to people who were already worn down. They were not new to faith, and they were not…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel lesson brings us directly to the mystery of Holy Communion. This passage has me thinking about several things. On the one hand, St…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, Today is a holy day marked as “Other Feasts of Our Lord” (BCP 16). It’s none other than the Presentation of Our Lord…
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Richard Mallory

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Dear friends of Saint Philip’s, I invite you to consider two contemporary versions of the Beatitudes.  One by Garnass-Holmes and the other by Stassen. See which…
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Chotard Doll

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Dear Friends: Today in Genesis Abraham and Sarah are visited in their tent by the Oaks of Mamre by “The Lord, seen as three men to…
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John Koza

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Dear friends in Christ,  Two of our readings for today are absolutely miraculous and awesome. Firstly, from Genesis 17: 15-19 we read: “God said to Abraham,…
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Lisa Bowden

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(Hebrews 10:1-10) Dear Friends, “Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, Today’s Epistle reading is a beautiful and rhetorically powerful description of Christ’s sacrifice.  The author of the Letter to the Hebrews describes how Jesus has…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, Today we observe the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle. Saul, an incredibly educated and observant Jewish man, who later…
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