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2025-09-21T08:55:07-04:00

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Theologies of Hope Amid Americas Violent Tendencies

Last updated on: September 21, 2025 at 8:55 am By Rob Giannamore

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Theologies of Hope Amid America’s Violent Tendencies Exploring Spiritual Perspectives, Cognitive Dissonance, and Thinking Errors in Shaping Our Views Anchor Scripture verse: 1 Peter 1:3 Introduction In my last post, I wrote about how change is hard. It has been a hard couple of years as a therapist and trained pastor. I field so many questions about how things are going to go, why people are doing what they do and how do we move forward. I don’t have all... Read more

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2025-09-17T11:14:32-04:00

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The Spiritual Practice of Embracing Impermanence

Last updated on: September 17, 2025 at 11:14 am By Rob Giannamore

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Summer has slowly faded into fall up here in Northwest Pennsylvania. The kids went back to school a couple of weeks ago and the Albion Fair recently commenced. Earlier in September, I did two charity bike rides in grape country, and the grapes were graping, the familiar smell of concord grapes in the warm September sun filled the air. In the human journey of becoming, we all go through seasons of change. This week, I want to reflect... Read more

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2025-09-13T15:44:22-04:00

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Jesus’ Compassion Toward His Oppressor

Last updated on: September 13, 2025 at 3:44 pm By Rob Giannamore

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How Jesus Demonstrates Powerful Love for Enemies Introduction Another series of senseless shootings have filled our American airwaves this week as another school was shot up and a prominent religious figure was assassinated. Instead of coming together in a moment of compassion and support, our two-party system is pointing fingers and blaming each other. While we think this all new to us, or even worse, that it cannot happen to us, we simply forget where we have been. I am... Read more

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2025-09-09T10:35:41-04:00

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Voicing The Truth in a Truthless Era

Last updated on: September 9, 2025 at 10:35 am By Rob Giannamore

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Voicing The Truth in a Truthless Era Reflections on Moral Courage and Identity Amid Civil Unrest Opening I always wondered what I would do during civil unrest like we have seen frequently in the United States and the Globe over the last 125 years. I spent my formative years in college studying the likes of Mahatmas Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Thich Nhat Hahn and Jesus. Eventually I would stumble into John Wesley, and he taught me a few... Read more

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2025-09-07T13:38:03-04:00

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True Discipleship and the Challenge of Grace

Last updated on: September 7, 2025 at 1:38 pm By Rob Giannamore

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Counting the Cost: True Discipleship and the Challenge of Grace Sermon on Luke 14:25-33 Inspired by Bonhoeffer’s “The Cost of Discipleship” Introduction To openly be a Christian in first century Palestine, following Jesus’ death could mean a death sentence and one that was not taken lightly. Jesus’ followers by all accounts prior to the church councils did not see the same divinity in him that the later church fathers did. Jesus was a Jewish male who took his Judaism seriously,... Read more

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2025-09-06T18:04:51-04:00

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God’s First Name is Speedy

Last updated on: September 6, 2025 at 6:04 pm By Rob Giannamore

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Introduction I had a chuckle in church yesterday as we were saying our prayers, and we all exclaimed “Thanks Be to God!”. My juvenile 14-year-old mind immediately went to the thought that God’s name was Speedy. Giggling to myself, my 15-year-old looked at me in the way that 15-year-old look at their almost 50-year-old dad when you are supposed to be in church and serious and asked what I was laughing at. I told her the joke, she just rolled... Read more

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2025-08-29T10:19:53-04:00

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Choose Life

Last updated on: August 29, 2025 at 10:19 am By Rob Giannamore

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A Reflection Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Introduction Change is inevitable. In Buddhism, they call it impermanence, the Stoics talk a lot about it as well. We are born, we learn to walk, we go to school, we go to work, we get married, have kids, retire and then die. Life is full of changes. This week, we are still in the same line of Lectionary texts that I preached last time I was with you. In my last message to you,... Read more

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2025-08-28T17:01:11-04:00

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Rethinking Compassion in Modern America

Last updated on: August 28, 2025 at 5:01 pm By Rob Giannamore

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Introduction In this post for this week, I want to address the modern attack on empathy. Here, I want to explore how we can balance toughness and tenderness in a changing society. We are at a crossroads in America where being a nice guy and a good husband is coopted by toxic Christian values that strips away the rights and freedoms of everyone in his family who is not male. After years working in therapy and therapists across the nation... Read more

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2025-08-24T17:19:43-04:00

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God’s Profound Care – Known, Protected, and Provided For

Last updated on: August 24, 2025 at 5:19 pm By Rob Giannamore

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God’s Profound Care – Known, Protected, and Provided For Text: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6, 9, 14-18; Matthew 6:25-34 Lectionary text for Proper 16, Season after Pentecost Sermon for Miller’s Station United Methodist Church 8/24/25 Introduction: The Universal Longings When we think about who God is and how God operates our lives, I want to invite you to consider God as intimately involved in our lives – God knows us, protects us, and provides for us, inviting us into a... Read more

2025-08-22T11:11:09-04:00

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Reclaiming Our Humanity Through Attachment and Detachment

Last updated on: August 22, 2025 at 11:11 am By Rob Giannamore

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We live in a period of time of great polarity. In America anyway, you are either left or right and both point to each other as wrong. The reality, they are part of the same bird. Instances of extreme human suffering—such as malnutrition, urban destruction, and concentration camps—are widely reported in contemporary media. Public discourse has increasingly referenced concepts like “toxic empathy,” suggesting a need to examine our collective capacity for compassion. In response to these challenging circumstances, it is... Read more

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