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2017-12-05T12:56:28-05:00

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The Chameleon Servant

Last updated on: December 5, 2017 at 12:56 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

St. Paul is a human chameleon. Read more

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2017-12-04T16:17:00-05:00

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The Care and Nurture of Your Pastor

Last updated on: December 4, 2017 at 4:17 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Pass the grass, please. Read more

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2017-12-03T17:25:20-05:00

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Love or Knowledge?

Last updated on: December 3, 2017 at 5:25 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Which does our culture value more: love or knowledge? Read more

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2017-12-01T15:31:08-05:00

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Sex and the Married Life

Last updated on: December 1, 2017 at 3:31 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Sex was God's idea. Read more

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The Christian Year

2017-11-30T20:10:52-05:00

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Your Body is a Temple

Last updated on: November 30, 2017 at 8:10 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

If you're a Christian: your body is a Temple, the place where God dwells. Read more

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2017-11-29T12:55:31-05:00

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Where There Is Not Love: The Church of the Corinthians

Last updated on: November 29, 2017 at 12:55 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

At the heart of the Corinthians’ failings (and ours) is a loss of love, and where there is not love people hurt each other. Read more

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Temple of the Holy Spirit

2017-11-28T17:22:49-05:00

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Excommunicated!

Last updated on: November 28, 2017 at 5:22 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

What Do You Think About Church Discipline? Read more

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Saturday of the 1st Sunday in Lent – 2 Timothy 2:1-15

Last updated on: February 25, 2015 at 10:09 am   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

2 Timothy 2:1-15 A lot of people dress up for Halloween each year as a variety of monsters and other diverse personae.  Many of us have secret fantasies about who we would really like to be: fantasies about archetypal roles such as heroes, athletes, actors, artists, warriors, kings, scientists, doctors, or entrepreneurs. What St. Paul is asking us to be this morning is a race of warrior-kings, united under the banner of the King of kings, in whose kingdom we... Read more

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Ember Friday of 1st Sunday in Lent – Matthew 10:24-42

Last updated on: February 24, 2015 at 6:32 pm   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Matthew 10:24-42 I feel like Jonah running away.  I saw that Matthew 10 was the lesson for this Ember Friday and included the difficult sayings of Jesus.  I thought about meditating instead on how if you just trust God and pray hard enough, He is guaranteed to financially bless you.  Then I gave serious consideration to verse 31 (at least the second half): “you are of more value than many sparrows.”  That seemed easy enough to talk about. But the... Read more

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2017-11-28T01:49:31-05:00

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Learning to Love

Last updated on: November 28, 2017 at 1:49 am   By Fr. Charles Erlandson

let us learn of love from the life of St. Paul. Read more

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