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The Last Sunday after Pentecost The Feast of Christ the King Jeremiah 23:1-6, Colossians 1:11-20, Luke 23:33-43 November 24, 2019            I have lately been rethinking how I THINK about some things.   For instance, I now think it may be possible for something to be both new and improved. I also think patience is a virtue for a reason.   And order does come out of chaos – but it has to be in the right order.   A good bit of the credit for this philosophical enlightening goes to Sherlock Holmes and Riley Page.   Now I would imagine we all know Sherlock Holmes and I have been watching the new BBC series.   Benedict Cumberbatch plays Holmes just like I want to imagine him – as the self-described neurotic sociopath, crime solving sleuth with the funny hat.   Sometimes I think I may think like him.              But if you are not familia...

Pentecost 23, Proper 28C Luke 21:5-19 St. Matthias November 17, 2019 Back on October 28, 1992 at midnight the world was supposed to come to an end.   Now the Good News is that it didn’t.   And the bad news was that it didn’t – at least for the members of the Dami Mission Church.   Here’s what happened.   The leader of this Christian Church in South Korea had it all figured out and he told the members in both South Korea and the United States that the world was going to end, and Christ was going to come again to judge the earth.   He used this very Gospel passage we read this morning to make his point.   The believers would ascend to heaven and the rest would be left on earth to face seven years of war, famine, and various other disasters that would kill all life on the planet.   Now to get ready, the faithful were instructed to sell everything they owned so they would not be burdened by worldly wealthy at the Day of Judgment.   O...

All Saints’ Sunday Luke 6:20-31 St. Matthias November 3, 2019            I have been thinking about the Saints this week – not just because the Feast of All Saints was on Friday or because today is All Saints Sunday.   I have been thinking about Saints this week because on Tuesday my Uncle Alvin became one.   Actually, he was a saint BEFORE then because that’s the way it works.   There are those people in our lives who change us for the better – whose stories we remember and tell over and over again – and who bring us closer to heaven.   And for some reason we don’t give them the title until the chorus of all the Saints welcome them to heaven.   But let’s be honest – Saints are Saints because of who they were on earth.   There are the popular ones like Saint Peter, Julian of Norwich, Mother Teresa, St. Francis and many others we can all name.   There are days officially designated a...