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This is how the birth of Jesus came about . . . With those few words a whole story gets set in motion.  And this is a story we know very well – one we’ve heard probably a hundred times before.  This is how the birth of Jesus came about . . . . Those […]

“What did you go out to the desert to see?” So says Jesus to the disciples of John the Baptist, people who were sent by a captive John to find out if Jesus was “the one”.  Jesus (as he often does) doesn’t answer their question directly.  Rather he gives them an enigmatic kind of answer,

It’s easy to feel bad.   And I don’t mean just about sad or tragic things that happen to us.  I’m talking about the stuff we actually cause, the stuff that makes us feel bad afterward.  Not all the time, of course.  There are plenty of less-than-honorable things we do that don’t seem to bother us

If you’ve ever hosted a party, you know that it can be tricky business.  Things don’t always go as planned.  Food doesn’t always come out of the oven the way we’d like.  Beverages sometimes run out, forcing others to run to the store to re-supply.  Sometimes the “mix” of people isn’t that good, and conversation