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chudgins4
- Sep 5, 2020
- 5 min
Matthew 18:15-20: Courage to Love
Let me just look at you for a minute. Let me just enjoy seeing you all gathered here inside these familiar walls, on these familiar pews,...
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chudgins4
- Mar 7, 2020
- 5 min
Matthew 5:38-48: How To Pray for an Enemy
Today’s Gospel lesson is full of some of the hardest teachings in the Bible: Turn the other cheek Give more than what is sued for Go the...
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Susan Mazarra
- Feb 29, 2020
- 5 min
Matthew 5:17-37: Traditions, Traps, Transformations: Spirit of the Law
In his teaching on the Sermon on the Mount, the Franciscan priest and contemplative Richard Rohr gives a beautiful and compelling framework
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chudgins4
- Feb 26, 2020
- 4 min
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21: The Hidden Meaning of Lent
An old saying goes, “If you give someone a fish they eat for a day. If you teach someone to fish they eat for a lifetime.” There is a lot...
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chudgins4
- Feb 22, 2020
- 7 min
Matthew 17:1-9 Rise, and do not be afraid
Moses met the living God in the burning bush and in the devouring fire on top of Mount Sinai, and both times, it changed him. The first...
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chudgins4
- Feb 9, 2020
- 6 min
Matthew 5:13-16: Being Salt and Light
I want to start by giving you some literary and geographical context for the Sermon on the Mount, which is contained in chapters 5, 6,...
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chudgins4
- Feb 1, 2020
- 5 min
Matthew 5:1-12: Blessed Are You
Take a moment to think about your blessings, to count your blessings, as the saying goes. You might even jot them down in the margins of...
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chudgins4
- Jan 11, 2020
- 4 min
Matthew 3:1-17: The Come-to-Jesus Meeting
“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee the wrath that is to come?” John showed up in the wilderness preaching hellfire and...
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chudgins4
- Jan 4, 2020
- 7 min
John 1:1-18: Word of the Year
Each year the Oxford English Dictionary issues its “word of the year,” the word or phrase that best encapsulates the mood or concerns of...
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