A Reflection for the First Sunday of Advent
GIVE US GRACE that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in...
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Union Church of Cupertino
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Reflection for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday After Pentecost: Thanksgiving Sunday!
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Nov 62 min read
Jesus Was a Storytelling Man
Do you have memories of listening to stories? Maybe bedtime stories were read to you when you were tucked into bed at night. Or stories...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Oct 312 min read
A Reflection for All Saints' Sunday
LAZARUS AND HIS TWO SISTERS lived in a town called Bethany a couple of miles outside Jerusalem and according to the Gospel of John were...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Oct 246 min read
A Reflection for the Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
In 1996, Johnny Cash recorded the Carter Family song " Kneeling Drunkard's Plea," which tells the story of a man kneeling at his mother’s...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Oct 173 min read
A Reflection for the Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
What I like about the Bible is that it is so real. The leaders of the Early Church are shown in all their humanity - warts and all. And...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Oct 93 min read
A Reflection for the Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost
I've always loved the rich young ruler as a sympathetic anti-hero. He's young, wealthy, powerful, and spiritually earnest. He asks the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Oct 31 min read
A Reflection for the Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY And the Table Will Be Wide A Blessing for World Communion Sunday And the table will be wide. And the welcome will...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Sep 264 min read
A Reflection for the Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
In the immediate setting of our Gospel Lesson the disciples on their way to Jerusalem, and they have been dealing the issue of...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Sep 196 min read
A Reflection for the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
What does a person have to do to become an insignificant leader? Why don't we ever hear people say, "You are destined to be really...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Sep 125 min read
A Reflection for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite writers, in Listening to Your Life, asks a series of questions designed to help us think about...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Sep 45 min read
A Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
At the Edge of the Enclosure - "Belonging and Breakthrough" … An essential part of wholeness is the sense of belonging. Belonging within...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Aug 297 min read
A Reflection for the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Those who cherish Charles Schultz’ “Peanuts” comic strip will no doubt remember Pig Pen, the mild-mannered, affable kid who, as Charlie...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Aug 225 min read
A Reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Do I Choose or Am I Chosen? "Choose this day whom you will serve..." --- Joshua (Joshua 24:15) "Lord, to whom can we go? You have the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Aug 154 min read
A Reflection for the Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
John the Evangelist: JOHN WAS A POET, and he knew about words. He knew that all men and all women are mysteries known only to themselves...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Aug 87 min read
A Reflection for the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Raise your hand if you agree with me: Calories ingested on vacation don’t count. Right? It’s our vacation and we get to eat all of the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jul 313 min read
A Reflection for the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
When Bill and I lived with the Episcopal sisters of the Community of the Holy Spirit at their convent at Bluestone Farm, sometimes they...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jul 255 min read
A Reflection for the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Part of what it means to believe in God, at least part of what it means for me, is to believe in the possibility of miracle, and because...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jul 162 min read
A Reflection on Sunday's Lesson - Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
You’re exhausted, unable to move forward, unable to concentrate or think what comes next, yet your blood is pounding—celebrating your...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jul 103 min read
Thoughts on this Sunday's Gospel Reading: Two Men Who Speak Truth to Power
When the dates were set for the Brady’s vacation, I gave Pastor Mark a bad time. I had looked up the lectionary readings and I said, “I...
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