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December 13, 2015 Advent 3 – Not getting away with it

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 August 19, 2016

It seems clear to me. It seems clear to me that the instructions of the Lord in this passage are not in any conceivable way ambiguous. Bear fruit worthy of repentance seems a little abstract but whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none does not leave a whole lot of room […]


Tags : Justice, Law, mercy, Traffic

Sunday, December 7, 2014 Advent 2 It will take courage

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 December 10, 2014
  · 1 Comment

“Oooooh, you shouldn’t have done that.” Almost all of us have had that thought race through our heads at one time or another. Most people have one or two moments in their lives that bring to them thoughts of shame and a fear of that one moment being exposed to others. Even pastors. There’s probably […]


Tags : Andy Lopez, beginnings, courage, cowardice, culture, culture of violence, Eric Garner, Fallujah, Fear, fear cowardice, Ferguson, forgiveness, gospel, grace, hard question, issues, leadership, lectionary, Mark, mercy, Michael Brown, protest, question, responsibility, shame, Sheriff, Staten Island, truth

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, September 15th, 2013 Pentecost 17 Rusty Tools

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 September 17, 2013
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I was reading the God Pause devotionals that are sent out by the esteemed seminary where some of America’s finest pastors are educated; Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN, that Heaven must be a rollicking place what with all of the joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. […]


Tags : 1 Timothy, auctions, celebrate, celebration, conviction, dancing, devotional, freedom, God Pause, Law, lost, Luther Seminary, mercy, One big party, pastor, pastoral call, Pharisee, rust, salvation, tools, uncomfortable message, works righteousness

April 7, 2013 – got all caught up in gardening so its a bit late

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 April 10, 2013
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Just showing off the glory of God’s Kingdom as expressed in my front yard! We have a strange relationship with the word Bravery in the world these days. We love the notion of bravery, but the world we have and are still creating does little to promote bravery, actual bravery, where you do something even […]


Tags : acts, brave, bravery, certainty, chosen one, doubt, doubting thomas, faith, good friday, hero, investing, madoff, mercy, perfection, risk, stockton, truth, virtue

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