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Missing God in both Success and Failure

Posted on August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 by Michael Rose
Why is it that when I sense a leading from God and follow through, the results so profoundly determines my hindsight? If things fit together with ease and all goes well I am confident that I have indeed heard God. Alternately, if things blow up in my face, I am suddenly stricken with a rash...
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A Humbling Homily

Posted on January 16, 2012February 19, 2016 by Michael Rose
Humility is one of those things in life I have always struggled with.  It is considered a pillar of Christianity, and an attribute we should demonstrate regularly as Jesus’ coheirs, who supposedly bear his image to the world.  Any sincere Christian who has read the gospels can see that, in light of the self-righteous Pharisees,...
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  • Keeping it Simple: Faith
    November 13, 2016

    Keeping it Simple: Faith

    I am fascinated by technology and gadgets. I am amazed by the complexity and the capability of the latest cell phones, tablets -heck, all of it! I look at all these apps and gadgets and imagine all the time saving I could achieve with these new toys ( um... I mean tools). As cool as...
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  • Healthy Community is where we learn to be Community
    June 4, 2020

    Healthy Community is where we learn to be Community

    The old joke says ‘Church would be awesome if it weren’t for the people’ and amidst a hearty chuckle, we sense a twinge of truth. Community is made of up human beings just like you and me - doing the best we can with what we have.  They are places where imperfect people, those of...
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  • Lament
    November 21, 2017

    Lament

    There was a tradition in a segment of Psalms referred to as the lament psalms. It was the pouring out of one's grief with all its ugliness to God. It was often in response to great loss, death, war, captivity and often gave voice to great despair and anger. In all the rawness that could...
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