1. Grief and Hope

    book
    05/10/21
    17 mins
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    By Kevin Hale
    Death may speak, and its voice may sound authoritative and decisive. Nonetheless, it is a mere whimper from the grave.
    Grief and Hope

  2. Alive Through Absolution

    book
    04/30/21
    6 mins
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    By Daniel Emery Price
    Absolution is the word God speaks to cause his sin-dead creation to live.
    Alive Through Absolution

  3. Easter is Over, Now What?

    book
    04/23/21
    20 mins
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    By John Bombaro
    Just as the grave could not hold the Lord of Life, neither could the calendar contain Easter to just one Sunday.
    Easter is Over, Now What?

  4. Relax, It's Me: How Jesus Saves Us From Doubt and Despair

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    04/22/21
    19 mins
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    By Ken Sundet Jones
    For those of us who recognize the disciples’ despair in ourselves, Jesus comes with the same word: “Relax, it’s me. Peace be with you.”
    Relax, It's Me: How Jesus Saves Us From Doubt and Despair

  5. God’s Sabbath Sleep: How Christ Filled in the Gap in the Creation Story

    book
    04/03/21
    12 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    Tomorrow Jesus will laugh his way out of the tomb, spit in the face of death, and kick the devil in the throat as he dances to the clapping glee of angelic masses. But today he just rests.
    God’s Sabbath Sleep: How Christ Filled in the Gap in the Creation Story

  6. Palm Sunday: This Week is For You

    book
    03/27/21
    6 mins
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    By John Bortulin
    For the God-man goes from borrowed donkey to borrowed upper room to borrowed cross and borrowed tomb. For you.
    Palm Sunday: This Week is For You

  7. Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy

    book
    03/09/21
    12 mins
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    By Bruce Hillman
    There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.
    Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy

  8. Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil

    book
    02/17/21
    9 mins
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    By Steven A. Hein
    Ash Wednesday, is meant to remind us we have a death problem. All living things made from the soil shall return to it.
    Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil

  9. Death's End according to Poet John Donne

    book
    01/25/21
    14 mins
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    By Grant Klembara
    Out of great pain and suffering often comes goodness, beauty, and truth. John Donne, born on the 22nd of January in 1573, is an excellent example of that for us in his masterful work, Death Be Not Proud.
    Death's End according to Poet John Donne

  10. Dominus Mortis

    book
    01/01/21
    9 mins
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    By John W. Hoyum
    Perhaps this past year has prompted the recognition that God is not the tame projection of our highest hopes and dreams. Instead, he is the one who uses even his foes to make a point.
    Dominus Mortis

  11. The Message of Advent Never Changes

    book
    12/08/20
    5 mins
    read
    By Donavon Riley
    The proclamation of Christ's coming is for all people, at all times.
    The Message of Advent Never Changes

  12. Advent Time

    book
    12/02/20
    7 mins
    read
    By Donavon Riley
    To a world enslaved to time (because it has no future), the Church's disregard for clocks and calendars is ridiculous.
    Advent Time
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