A Reflection for the Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
I picture Jesus' hometown family and friends squirming in their synagogue seats and craning their necks to see if he's coming up the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jun 265 min read
A Reflection for the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
There aren’t many Bible verses that bring tears to my eyes as quickly as the one that lies at the heart of this week’s Gospel reading:...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jun 206 min read
A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Meditate on the Gospel Passage Mark 4:35-41 tells the story that inspired Rembrandt’s painting of The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Read...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jun 136 min read
A Reflection for Father’s Day
The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Forgot to get a gift for dad this Father’s Day? Well, you could just drop him off at The Home Depot...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Jun 64 min read
A Reflection for the Third Sunday After Pentecost
It was 19 years ago, June 12 2005, that Steve Jobs delivered the Commencement Address at Stanford University. Speaking to the graduating...
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Union Church of Cupertino
May 302 min read
A Reflection for the Second Sunday After Pentecost
Life is so unpredictable, and yet we attempt to predict it. I check the weather on my computer or phone at least three times a day (which...
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Union Church of Cupertino
May 236 min read
A Reflection for Trinity Sunday
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be...
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Union Church of Cupertino
May 154 min read
A Reflection for Pentecost Sunday
Acts 2:1-21 There are so many images in this week's Pentecost account that I find my imagination running in a couple of different...
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Union Church of Cupertino
May 96 min read
A Reflection for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
It is no wonder that we Christians struggle. We are still in the world and thus we struggle with the evil in the world; we struggle with...
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Union Church of Cupertino
May 25 min read
Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
It's All About Love
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Union Church of Cupertino
Apr 243 min read
Some Thoughts for April 28, 2024
Hearing the call, and seeing the need, can and will we respond? As most of you know, I am now in Seminary, studying ministry, hopefully...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Apr 184 min read
A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
I have, as you likely have, heard more sermons on the tenth chapter of John than almost any other…, as we read portions of it each year...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Apr 113 min read
A Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter
44 Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Apr 33 min read
Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter
IMAGINATION WAS NOT Thomas's long suit. He called a spade a spade. He was a realist. He didn't believe in fairy tales, and if anything...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 273 min read
A Reflection for Easter Sunday
“Christmas has a large and colorful cast of characters including not only the three principals themselves, but the angel Gabriel, the...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 212 min read
A Reflection for Palm Sunday
Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 142 min read
A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Lent
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 73 min read
A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
Crux Est Mundi Medicina When I worked at Holy Cross Monastery (West Park, NY) in the late 80's and early 90's, my desk (in what is now...
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Union Church of Cupertino
Mar 64 min read
A Reflection for the Third Sunday in Lent
Lent is the great spring-cleaning of the Christian life. It is the traditional season of prayer and fasting in preparation for the great...
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