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12th Dec 2009 | Posted in: Pastor's Blog Comments Off

I have a friend who is a psychiatrist.  He was studying to practice psychiatry in the Medical school at Duke while I was studying to be a pastor in the Divinity School.  We’ve kept up over the years, and we still get together every now and then to catch up with each other, for me [...]

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Christmas always was her favorite time of year.  There was especially something about the Christmas Eve candlelight service that rekindled her sense of life and faith and love like nothing else in the year.  She looked forward to it every Christmas, gathering late at night, in the cold, with family and strangers, in a packed [...]

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(Christ the King Sunday)
What is truth?  Well, who can say?  There are so many claims, so many ways to see things, so many good people who see things in different ways, it’s hard to pin down truth.
And we’re wary of anyone who claims to have a hold on truth.
Ours is a pluralistic world, where tolerance [...]

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(On The Occasion of the baptism of Christopher Isaac Moore)
{Those of you who are regular worshipers here at All Saints’ have never seen me preach from behind the pulpit.  You know that as your pastor, I prefer to preach out there, close to you, with nothing separating me from you.  That’s where Greg the pastor [...]

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[I invite you to take out a pen, and jot some notes down during the sermon.  I trust that God will speak something to you during the sermon, and I’d love for you to jot that down, take it home and pray through it this week.]
Believe it or not, the holidays are almost upon us.  [...]