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A New Year With God

Making life-decisions about our diets and exercise is a good thing. But let us not forget that our relationship with God is to be the most important part of who we are; Continue reading

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New Year’s Resolution

May our resolution be that 2017 be for us all a year of prayer, a year of engagement with our creator, a year of blessing. Continue reading

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Prayer for a New Year

A prayer of thanksgiving for the New Year. Continue reading

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A New Year’s Letter to Creators of the Unfounded

As far as I know, we’re finite beings living in a finite world, and where there’s newness, creation and creativity, there’s an associated letting go and destruction of the old. Scary stuff. Continue reading

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New Year’s Resolutions

This New Year, I pray we will all take the time and effort to combine our looking back at the past year with the plans for the coming year, so that 2014’s ‘resolutions’ will be fruitful for us and for the world – for the love of God. Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

September. The time of new beginnings, a new season, a new school year. While the calendar tells me that January 1 is when the new year officially begins, and the church year begins with Advent, I find that for all intents and purposes, it is September that feels more like a ‘new year’. Continue reading

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Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!

We wrestle with two kinds of welcome in the fall: welcoming the regulars back into the busy-ness of fall, and asking ourselves how to be hospitable to newcomers. How can we think about welcome to share the good news that God welcomes each and every one of us with open arms? Continue reading

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Return Home

May this New Year take us towards many beautiful new insights, giving us food and faith for the journey home. Continue reading

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New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of year when we reflect on the year that has passed, and start thinking about the year to come. Do your 2013 New Year’s resolutions include something relating to your spiritual or church life? Continue reading

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