Author Archives: Morning Reflections

Deathbed Visions

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Life isn’t over when it’s over. That’s one of the New Testament’s bedrock assertions. More than a few people, of course, wish they had more than just a few Bible verses to cling to. Is there any tangible evidence, in the here and now, that the world we access with our senses is not… Read more »

Apocalyptic Romance

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Will you go to prom with me?” For a young man, pausing awkwardly by his potential date’s locker between classes, that has always been one of life’s most anxiety-inducing questions. These days, prom requests have become increasingly playful, creative, and even desperate, as documented by scores of postings on social media. Audacity and live… Read more »

Keeping Us from Falling

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Elisha Otis once risked his business, his reputation, and his life with one stroke of an ax. Looking down on the crowd at the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York in 1853, Otis gave the signal to chop the only rope that held him suspended on a platform high above the… Read more »

God Took the Long Way

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  Are you ready for Christmas? During the season of Advent – which annually begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and leads up to December 25 – followers of Jesus traditionally look for ways to prepare themselves for the coming of God’s own Son into the world. Throughout December we’ll ponder… Read more »

Just Believe

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  Are you ready for Christmas? During the season of Advent – which annually begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and leads up to December 25 – followers of Jesus traditionally look for ways to prepare themselves for the coming of God’s own Son into the world. Throughout December we’ll ponder… Read more »

An Invitation Like No Other

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  Are you ready for Christmas? During the season of Advent – which annually begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and leads up to December 25 – followers of Jesus traditionally look for ways to prepare themselves for the coming of God’s own Son into the world. Throughout December we’ll ponder… Read more »

Beginning Again

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  Are you ready for Christmas? During the season of Advent – which annually begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and leads up to December 25 – followers of Jesus traditionally look for ways to prepare themselves for the coming of God’s own Son into the world. Throughout December we’ll ponder… Read more »

Right in Front of Us

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  Are you ready for Christmas? During the season of Advent – which annually begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and leads up to December 25 – followers of Jesus traditionally look for ways to prepare themselves for the coming of God’s own Son into the world. Throughout December we’ll ponder… Read more »

The Survivors Club

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  Are you ready for Christmas? During the season of Advent – which annually begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and leads up to December 25 – followers of Jesus traditionally look for ways to prepare themselves for the coming of God’s own Son into the world. Throughout December we’ll ponder… Read more »

Retelling the Story

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  Are you ready for Christmas? During the season of Advent – which annually begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and leads up to December 25 – followers of Jesus traditionally look for ways to prepare themselves for the coming of God’s own Son into the world. Throughout December we’ll ponder… Read more »