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Erma Hudgins
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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,...
chudgins4
Sep 5, 20205 min read


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...
chudgins4
Mar 7, 20205 min read


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
Susan Mazarra
Feb 29, 20205 min read


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...
chudgins4
Feb 26, 20204 min read


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...
chudgins4
Feb 22, 20207 min read


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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Feb 9, 20206 min read


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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Feb 1, 20205 min read


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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Jan 11, 20204 min read


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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Jan 4, 20207 min read


Luke 2:1-20: Great Joy for All People
What brings you joy at Christmas? Being with family? Enjoying the delight of children as they anticipate visits with Santa and their...
chudgins4
Dec 27, 20195 min read


Matthew 2:13-18: And How Are the Children?
Among the most accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than...
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Dec 27, 20196 min read


Matthew 1:18-25: Love that Liberates
By rights, Mary should have been executed. If a man takes a woman for his wife and discovers that she is not a virgin “she shall be...
chudgins4
Dec 21, 20194 min read


Mark 6:30-34: Oh rest beside the weary road
It was called “The Blizzard of 1996.” It was the worst nor’easter snowstorm to hit the East Coast in decades. It hit Virginia, West...
chudgins4
Dec 19, 20193 min read


Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 15:4-13: Wrestling and Resting in Peace
Are you a “wrestler” or a “rester”? Are you the sort of person who is constantly wrestling with God, struggling to work out your faith...
chudgins4
Dec 19, 20195 min read
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