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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2023/01/29

Do the impossible?

Are we called to do the impossible? I have said more than once, God doesn’t ask us to do what we canNOT do. We are never asked to fly without assistance, we aren’t asked to walk on water or turn water into wine. We are frequently asked to do things that are very difficult for […]

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2015/02/01

Some things are hard

I know that the title of this blog post is one that could be taken several ways. I hasten to add that this is not a “tell-all” post where I relate things that are going on in my life that are hard (I’m not promising that I won’t write such a post in the future, […]

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2014/08/31

Mission impossible

There are at least a couple of places in the Bible where we are called to do what seems impossible. The two I’m thinking of are Jesus’ words commonly called the Sermon on the Mount and St. Paul’s words captured in Romans 12:9-21. This Sunday I preached on the Romans passage and referred to it […]

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