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Sacred Journeys Blog
New Year, New Wine
09 Jan, 2023
So, my partner and I don’t really fall into the category of big New Year’s Eve celebrators. We didn’t stay up until midnight, we didn’t even watch the ball drop in New York. It’s been years since we’ve celebrated with friends. But this doesn’t...
Keeping Joseph in Christmas
19 Dec, 2022
John Shea talks about not turning a story into an idol. He says, "It is merely a gate they open so we may go inside.” So, let’s go inside the nativity story in Matthew to consider Joseph for a few minutes. Joseph was a fine, upstanding Jewish...
Keeping Merry in Christmas
12 Dec, 2022
Erma Bombeck once wrote an article entitled “The Lost Christmas.” It began like this: “There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child…” Do you remember experiencing the wonder and magic of Christmas...
Keeping Herod in Christmas
05 Dec, 2022
Many scholars believe that the birth narratives, which we find in written form for the first time fifty-plus years after Jesus’ death is a product of Jewish midrash. Midrash was a process by which the Jewish rabbis explored current situations...
Keeping Shepherds in Christmas
28 Nov, 2022
Did you know that there are two birth narratives of Jesus? One is in the Gospel of Matthew and one is in the Gospel of Luke. Time and tradition have merged many of the elements together, but if you take a look you'll see that they are two very...
Lessons of Autumn: Gratitude
21 Nov, 2022
The third lesson of autumn is gratitude. It rides on the coattails of an abundant mindset which reminds us that we have all we need within us – the spiritual strength, the wisdom (sometimes the wisdom to seek help), the tenacity and fortitude...
Lessons of Autumn: Letting Go
14 Nov, 2022
Autumn is ironically not only a season of harvest and abundance, but also a season of letting go, of change, of dying. This is so obvious in the dying leaves covering our ground, and the world changing to the stark colors of gray and brown. In...
Lessons of Autumn: Abundance
07 Nov, 2022
Every season has its energy and its lessons to teach us. The first lesson of autumn I'd like to discuss is abundance . Harvest festivals have been going on for thousands of years, celebrating the bounty of the land and gratitude for how Mother...
Going Beyond Heaven & Hell
31 Oct, 2022
There are many scripture in the New Testament that provide the biblical basis for the judgment of people as good and bad, consequently sending them to places of eternal life or eternal punishment - heaven and hell. In order for us to go beyond...
Going Beyond Jesus as Rescuer
24 Oct, 2022
This is the fifth in a sermon series on "Going Beyond..." It's time to talk about going beyond Jesus as our rescuer. Let me begin by being perfectly clear about what I’m trying to say: Jesus did not die for your sins or mine, or anyone else’s...