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Some years ago, I heard “a man may not live by bread alone, but first he must have the bread.” Food is crucial to our lives and so often ...

Friday Greetings - July 24

In a Disciple Bible Study video, Leander Keck says “good parables are like good jokes, you either get them or you don’t.” With all due re...

Friday Greetings - July 17

I counted recently and this Sunday will mark 19 Sundays since our last "regular" worship service. I can't help but think of that ever-pre...

Friday Greetings - July 10

Matthew 11: 28-30 “Come to me, all you who are struggling hard and carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest. 29 Put on my yoke, and...

Friday Greetings - July 3

July 4, 1776 is a somewhat arbitrary moment to celebrate. The Declaration of Independence was actually passed on July 2, 1776. The offici...

Friday Greetings - June 26

Pastors have a tendency to live by a different calendar. When the rest of the world is experiencing Christmas, we tend to be thinking abo...

Friday Greetings - June 19

In the 1990’s sociologists starting talking about “third places.” By that they meant the third anchor of our lives, the third place we sp...

Friday Greeting - June 12

A college professor and department head was strolling across campus towards her office. Victoria Rosa-Garcia always enjoys the walk acros...

Friday Greetings - June 5

“Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.” (2 Cor. 13:12) Those words have a strangely appealing ring to them in the...

Friday Greetings - May 29

“Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me. Spirit of t...

Friday Greetings - May 22

You ever go to a place with so many things to look at that you feel almost over-whelmed? Where do I let my eye settle? Do I focus on the ...

Friday Greetings - May 15

When our son, Nathan, was little he would frequently say “I have a plan” and then explain why we should do what he thought would be fun. ...

Friday Greetings - May 8

Eugene Peterson describes what he calls a “tourist mindset” by saying that for some, “religion is understood as a visit to an attractive ...

Friday Greetings - May 1

Philip Yancey describes grace as “the last best good word.” Writes Yancey, “even now, despite our secular drift, taproots still stretch t...

Friday Greetings - April 24

In our staff devotional time this week, we read a quotation from Peter Maurin, who was active in the Catholic Worker Movement from the ea...

Friday Greetings - April 17

Friday Greetings friends! We are enjoying the fact that we have so many wonderful ways of connecting, many of which you will find on our ...

Friday Greetings - April 10

Easter Sunday is reckoned as “the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox.” That system dates back to the Counc...

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