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Distraction and service

07/22/2019 11:58
[Gen. 18:1-10a; Ps. 15; Col. 1:15-28; Lk. 10:38-42]   Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.     How do we serve God?   Abraham ran to meet God and bowed low to the ground; The psalmist led a seemingly blameless life; Saint Paul suffered imprisonment; Mary sat at our...

Crossing the road

07/16/2019 12:35
[Lk. 10:25-37]   Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.                 So the warriors left the captives and the booty before the officials and all the assembly. 15 Then those who were mentioned by name got up and...
[Is. 65:1-9; Gal. 3:23-29; Lk. 8:26-39]   Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.     There’s a meme, a picture on Facebook of a young man and Jesus sitting on a bench in a park:   The young man asks Jesus: “So why do you allow things like famine, war, suffering, disease,...

Do not be afraid!

06/09/2019 14:01
[Gen. 11:1-9; Acts 2:1-21; Jn. 14:8-17, 25-27]   Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.     “Do not be afraid.”   Jesus has just told the disciples that the Father was going to send the Holy Spirit, and he adds to that promise his peace and the admonition not to be...

Hij is opgevaren...

06/02/2019 15:20
[Ps. 110; Lc. 24:49-53]   Vrede zij met u allen, die één bent in Christus. Amen.     Uit het Marcusevangelie hoofdstuk 16:   “Nadat hij dit tegen hen had gezegd, werd de Heer Jezus in de hemel opgenomen en nam hij plaats aan de rechterhand van God. En zij gingen op weg om overal...

One we are

05/31/2019 09:12
[Acts 9:36-43; Jn. 10:22-30]   Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.     So, this is our scene:   It’s winter in Jerusalem, and it can get cold there, even snow a little in the hillside. It’s the period of the Festival of Dedication or Festival of Lights (khanukah), a...

Lest we forget

05/11/2019 16:05
We gather in silence.   Welcome and introduction: At 2.41 pm on 7th May 1945 in a school house in Rheims, France, unconditional surrender was signed: active operations by the German Forces would cease by 11.01 pm the next day. And so, on 8th May 1945, the news the nations of Europe had...

After the holidays

05/05/2019 17:03
[Jn. 21:1-19]   Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.     Back to life, back to reality Back to the here and now, yeah Show me how Decide what you want from me Tell me maybe I could be there for you              ...
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Expectations

04/14/2019 19:15
[Lk. 19:28-40; Lk. 22:14-23:56]   Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.     Please take your liturgy booklet and look at the front page. What’s missing?   What about a general enthusiasm? It all seems very static, doesn’t it? The excitement isn’t exactly palpable, at...
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