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July | 2013 | Open Table
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Monthly Archives: July 2013. July 12, 2013. Every time I pray the Daily Office, something good happens. I know this sounds superstitious, like the Medieval Christian practice of going from church to church to see the elevated host (large wafer representing the body of Christ). At a … Continue reading →. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. Thoughts on the Fall. Join 24 other followers. St Matthew's Home Site. Blog at WordPress.com.
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March | 2015 | Open Table
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Monthly Archives: March 2015. March 29, 2015. And so we begin Holy Week. We would like life to be clear, certain and under control, and for God to be the guarantor of such a happy outcome. But God never offers certainty and those who look for it … Continue reading →. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. March 15, 2015. Thoughts on the Fall. March 1, 2015. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. Thoughts on the Fall. Join 24 other followers.
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August | 2013 | Open Table
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Monthly Archives: August 2013. Daily Practice: How to be Rich Toward God. August 4, 2013. Today at St. Matthews we explored the parable of the rich man who decided to build bigger barns to store his bumper crop, only to be confronted by his own mortality and the reality that life does not consist in … Continue reading →. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. Thoughts on the Fall. Join 24 other followers. St Matthew's Home Site.
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May | 2013 | Open Table
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Monthly Archives: May 2013. May 7, 2013. The last two Sundays, Dan Johnson has led the Adult Faith Forum in exploring the spiritual practice of Sabbath. The following post contains a few of his reflections on the topic. For anyone wanting an executive summary of the last … Continue reading →. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. Thoughts on the Fall. Join 24 other followers. St Matthew's Home Site. Blog at WordPress.com.
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June | 2011 | Open Table
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Monthly Archives: June 2011. June 12, 2011. The word “wonder” is one of my favorite words in the English language. We have the seven wonders of the world, “one-hit wonders,” “wonder workers”, and expressions like, “It’s a wonder that he even made the team,” or conversely,” “It’s … Continue reading →. Curiosity as a Spiritual Practice. June 8, 2011. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. Thoughts on the Fall. Join 24 other followers.
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September | 2013 | Open Table
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Monthly Archives: September 2013. September 19, 2013. We can all imagine ways in which the world could be a better place. One attractive image is the community formed by the early church: Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul … Continue reading →. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. Thoughts on the Fall. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. April 21, 2015. Where do we see God’s hope alive in the world today? As a New Community, a New Creation in Christ? In church yesterday, I experienced God’s hope, peace and life as I took communion. I felt a letting go, a … Continue reading →. March 29, 2015. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. March 15, 2015. Thoughts on the Fall. March 1, 2015. February 25, 2015. In her Sunday sermon Creation, preacher Blair Pogue made the following points ...
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April | 2013 | Open Table
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Monthly Archives: April 2013. Reflections on the Bombings in Boston and the Life to Which Jesus is Calling Us. April 18, 2013. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking … Continue reading →. The Spiritual Practice of Gratitude. April 12, 2013. Thoughts on the Fall.
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. Thoughts on the Fall. Holy Week →. Act IV: Israel and the Kingdom. March 15, 2015. Lisa invited us to do a spiritual exercise this week. Every day when you wake up and before you go to bed, survey your day, and ask yourself three questions:. 1) What do I really want, underneath my surface desires and assumptions? 3) What does it mean that I am invited to receive God’s reign as a gift? This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Notify me of ...
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News and thoughts from St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, St. Paul MN. April 21, 2015. Where do we see God’s hope alive in the world today? As a New Community, a New Creation in Christ? In church yesterday, I experienced God’s hope, peace and life as I took communion. I felt a letting go, a here I am moment. I thought, here I am-sinner and saint. We were asked: In the midst of chaos in the world, where do we long for hope and where do we see hope? Within ourselves-where do we long for and see hope? We are d...
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