Weekly Reflection

Dear Grace Church Family and Friends, In the Gospel According to Matthew, Jesus often calls us to be and do like him. In chapter 5, he calls all of us to be light; to be a shining example to the…
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Dear Grace Church Friends and Family, I can’t believe that I actually did this! Last week, I watched a “Reality” TV show. The hard part for me with this scripted form of “reality,” is watching folks who are basically famous…
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An Invitation to “Eastering” every day It is, for me as I now write this, Easter Monday. I am “back at work” as usual on a Monday morning. Yes, “the grind” could be taking a toll, except that yesterday, Easter…
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Dear Grace Church Family, I commend the words of Psalm 51 to you this day. Actually, every day. In the long tradition of Christian and Jewish devotional practice, only a few Psalms are more recited or committed to memory. In…
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The Gospel as Fairy Tale John 1: 1-5   Dear Family and Friends of Grace Church, The Gospel as Fairy Tale? Don’t let that sentence put you off. It’s from renowned Christian theologian and thinker, Frederick Buechner. The “Fairy Tale”…
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Dear Grace Church Family and Friends, “Blessings abound!” “Count your blessings!” “Be a blessing!” All these very true truisms come to life in the Psalms and the Gospels. Comparing and understanding two particular readings will help us catch a truth…
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What can I do?  I Corinthians 1:26-31   Dear Family and Friends of Grace Church, Ukraine and Russia are at war. The World is fast hurtling toward an even greater conflict. But what can I do about it? What can…
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Catching (on) Fire Luke 3:16 & Hebrews 1:7   Dear Grace Church Family and Friends, It happened again, as it so often does in my head, that two otherwise unrelated verses of Scripture converged in my mind and got me…
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Dear Grace Church Family, Listening to the news really can bring us to despair. We can come to wonder, “Where is God in all this?” Maybe even ask “What’s the point of God in all this?” That’s where our Psalmist…
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It’s Complicated! Sirach 44:1-15   Dear Family and Friends of Grace Church, It’s President’s Day as I write this. And I am having an internal conflict as I write. All morning, the words of Sirach, (Ecclesiasticus), chapter 44 have been…
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