Author: Arnie Wierenga

Lent 2

we daily
encounter
activists in our time
who are so passionate
about what it is they believe
that we can’t help but notice the
ways in which they speak
boldly and unashamedly
their message

Rev. Amanda Nicholas

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Lent 1

people are
dropped in a remote
wilderness and attempt to stay
completely isolated from
all the usual supports
of food, shelter
and kin.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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Transfiguration of Jesus

It’s
tempting
to keep our head in
the clouds, but that’s hardly
much earthly
use.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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Epiphany 5

I sense
a hunger in
our world right now …
for making meaning in the
world’s meaningless soup of
abusive power, greed,
destruction, warfare,
hatred, racism…

Rev. Jennie Gordon

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Epiphany 4

It was a time
of dramatic social upheaval.
Families were leaving the country for cities
looking for work.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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Epiphany 3 (Day of Mourning)

the fact
that you have
got this far probably means
that somehow, somewhere, sometime,
you said ‘Yes’ to the Spirit’s
persistent/irresistible
invitation

Rev. Jennie Gordon

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Epiphany 2

Many years ago,
in my early years of High School,
I came home from a church day of prayer
and study and announced that:
“God has called me to be
a teacher”.

Rev. Moira Dodsworth

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Baptism of Jesus

There was
darkness and a
broody chaos and,
in the wonderful creative
process of bringing into being,
there was the Spirit
hovering.

Rev. Deacon Wendy Elson

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Christmas 1

From
early notions
of warding off evil spirits,
to the use of tons of the stuff now,
to mark New Years celebrations,
we seem to be fascinated
with bright lights.

Rev. Ian Brown

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Christmas Day

How many times
has the miracle of life
sparked a new hope and wonder in us?

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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