13 December Isaiah 48:17-19

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Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Do you remember playing games when you were a child.  We could play house, congress, doctor, soldier, priest, teacher, our mom or dad, or anything we wanted to play.  It was fun … Continued

11 December Isaiah 40:25-31

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Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Some people believe that the stars can order our lives and determine our days.  The Israelites had met astrologers in Mesopotamia during the exile. What role could these stars have once they … Continued

8 December Luke 3: 1-6

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Please read the passage before the homily. Nothing that God does, nothing that happen, happens in a vacuum or without a context.  What happened in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar under Pontius Pilate happened in a context, in a … Continued

6 December Isaiah 29:17-24

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Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Apples galore!  When God changes the forest into an orchard and then changes the forest into an orchard.  I have the picture of a family-sized orchard becoming as big as a national … Continued

4 December Isaiah 25:6-10a

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Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Advent denotes a season for coming.  God is coming.  Why is God coming?  God is coming to destroy, not us nor sinners, but death itself.  God is coming to put an end … Continued

2 December Isaiah 2:1-5

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Please read the passage before reading the commentary. It is the beginning of a religious season called Advent.  This is how some Christians prepare for Christmas.   The economic world prepares for Christmas by celebrating Black Friday, Cyber Monda, and a … Continued