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Second Sunday of Christmas

 This reading, which I just read from the Gospel of John, is the Christmas Day reading every year.  Today is the 10th Day of Christmas.  After the hustle and bustle of Christmas preparations, and...

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The Real Deal

Let us love one another because love is from God. In this is love, not that we loved God but that God loved us. If we love one another, God lives in us. God is...

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The God Who Is Embodied

Today we are urged by the writer of I John not to trust every spirit that comes our way, but to “test the spirits”, to see whether it is of God or not. Do you...

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Get Real

In our passage from I John today, we find a paradox: if we are to walk in the light, we must turn to the darkness – our own darkness, specifically. The writer of John makes...

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See, Hear, Touch

I’ll never forget that evening at Lady of the Valley Catholic church in La Jara, Colorado. I was a youth pastor at the time and I was there with a busload of my youth group....