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Sunday, March 29, 2015 Sunday of the Passion – Not Enough for You, or Me

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 April 7, 2015
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It is no surprise to anyone who has been to Bible study here that the Philippians text for this morning is my favorite piece of scripture of them all; it is on the triptych of photos above the door to my office; it is inscribed upon my heart as they say in elsewhere in the […]


Tags : bedrock, cart before the horse, Christ Hymn, cleverness, Communion, consequences, Eucharist, honesty, love, Manna, self-deception, self-delusion, trivialize, we are beggars

Sunday, February 15, 2015 Transfiguration – A thief in the Night

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 March 8, 2015
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Debbie and I knew of each other in High School. We could have said hi if we were so inclined and it would not have been weird. She was a band geek and I was a theater dork so a complete lack of a “cool” veneer was certainly something we had in common, perhaps the […]


Tags : Dish, dork, Facebook, friends, geek, High School, love, monument, new sight, reuinions, Rob Lowe, trophies

Sunday, November 30, 2014 Advent 1 Here we are again, sharing?

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 December 11, 2014
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Here we are again. Here we are in the season of sharing and caring and cooking of large meals for large groups and lifting of glasses and passing of serving dishes and laughter and handing pictures of the newest grandchild around, made less convenient these days when the pictures are all on someone’s phone and […]


Tags : bad back, Black Friday, Brigadoon, Cannibal Pygmies, community, Drought, Elijah, guests, hypocrites, joy, love, Monopoly, new, relatives, Scrabble, Settlers of Catan, Thanksgiving, visitors

Sunday, February 16th, 2014 Pentecost 6 Imprisoned

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 February 27, 2014
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There are people lying in chains, lost and without hope. There are people behind bars, forlorn and weeping, yearning to be free but unable to break the bonds that hold them captive. They cry out for release. In this world of ours there are untold people whose lives are not so much lived as endured, […]


Tags : bars, behind bars, captive, captivity, commandments, commission, cruelty, grace, Hope, imprisoned, iron, jailor, just, love, mercy, omission, rationalize, stern, stone, walls

Sunday, November 17th, 2013 Pentecost 26 you gotta know your neighbor if you want to love them

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 November 19, 2013
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Where will you stand? Hopefully not with the arrogant and the evildoers I should hope. In Christ you are freed (we confess and profess and live in hope), we are freed from the fate of the arrogant and the evildoer; and the day of deliverance may simply leave you in a wooly paradise, a time with […]


Tags : arrogance, easy chair, How were we supposed to know, humility, idleness, isolation, Justice, know, love, mercy, Paris Hilton, profess, share, sizzle, values

Sunday, June 9, 3rd Sunday after Pentecost – j’accuse! or maybe not

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 June 11, 2013
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How do you tell people that they are dead? They don’t look dead, for the most part; and they don’t think of themselves as dead, for the most part. In fact, most people don’t think that the lives that they lead are at all deficient, or lacking, or somehow broken, and if you manage to […]


Tags : avarice, Board Games, dead, dead people, Elijah, forgiveness, generosity, grace, greed, Hope, life, loser, love, madness, Man of God, old-fashioned, salvation, Surprise, Widow, winner
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