tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12967793036160055232024-03-13T05:52:55.477-07:00A Lectionary Garden of Thoughts and Sermons"Community arises when the sharing of pain takes place, not as a stifling form of self-complaint, but as a recognition of God's saving promises." Henri NouwenKelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-68996861200532283332016-07-21T14:11:00.000-07:002016-07-21T14:13:41.510-07:00Naaman the Leper 2 Kings 5 Proper 9C Ordinary 14C Pentecost +7<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">We find in the
tale of Naaman the Syrian a masterfully told narrative. Immediately upon
reading, we are caught up in the plot, or the problem. There is a great man,
honourable man, strong man, but he has contracted a disease. However, the word
for leprosy used here is not the worst kind that would separate him from
everyone. It may have been something so simple as eczema or psoriasis, but any
skin disease was considered suspect because after all it could be leprosy. Then
we have a shock: an un-named slave girl suggests the cure. What is even more
shocking is that Naaman listens to this unnamed slave girl. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">The cure lies in
the power of a prophet in Israel. The prophet is unnamed, but we know who it is
because we have already been reading about the miracles of Elisha in chapter 4:
he causes the widow’s oil lasted longer than it should have, he raises the Shunammite
woman’s son, he purifies some poison stew, and he feeds 100 people with very
little food, we the readers have no problem believing that Elisha can cure
Naaman’s leprosy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">But there is
this one little problem. Israel and Syria do not have a good relationship, if
you turn over to chapter 6 you find that Syria and Israel are at war. How in
the world will a commander of the army of Syria (Aram), march into Israel and
ask for healing? He does it with dignity and pomp and circumstance and lots of
money, like any VIP would do. Surely the king of Israel won’t turn down a load
of money. 10 talents of silver A talent could weigh anything from 50-80 lbs and
silver today is worth about $225 a pound. 6,000 shekels of gold would be 150
lbs of gold, gold is worth about $400 a pound today, and 10 changes of clothes
in a day when most people wore their clothes until they rotted off of them. But
the king of Israel takes it as a trick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">Meanwhile Elisha
knows what is going on and sends a servant and says to send Naaman to him that
‘he may learn there is a prophet in Israel’. What does the VIP expect when his
chariot and his entourage stops at Elisha’s door? The red carpet? Flashing
paparazzi photography? Of course. After all this is the treatment that
commanders receive. Instead he gets nothing but a servant, possibly a slave to
deliver the healer’s message: go dip in the Jordan river seven times. And he
has a righteous fit. I’ve tried to think of a similar situation and what I
thought of was Donald Trump with all his money arriving at a tribal shaman’s
house asking for a cure. It looks this ridiculous. And then for the healer to
send a servant? That is dishonourable. This means the prophet is not even
giving him the time of day to see him. This is when you have stage 4 cancer and
your oncologist sends a medical assistant to give his or her orders, and you
never see the doctor. But his servants see the heart of the problem. It’s just
too easy. If it was difficult, would<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you
have done it? Of course you must give a difficult task to a hero in order to
make the story sell. Perhaps he will kill a giant with nothing but a slingshot,
or take on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 12 tasks of Hercules that
start with killing a lion, and killing the nine headed dragon… Perhaps he will
have to fly a fight plane through a trench and make a precise shot to destroy
the death star, or take the one ring and throw it in the fire of mount doom, At
very very least he should have to lift a heavy hammer and defeat his evil
brother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naaman hoped for such a task, instead he is
told to dip in a dirty river. Talk about anticlimactic! For instance: would the
so called Oklahoma river-that we know is really the Canadian make you clean?
No, it might give you Ecoli. And everyone knows that Syrian’s rivers are much
better than Israel’s little stream called the Jordan. His servants persuade
him, just as the servant girl persuaded him to try this in the first place. He
is clean, he is cured, he rejoices and wants to worship the God of Israel, which
shows not only is he physically healed but spiritually as well. Elisha won’t
take payment and Naaman wants dirt, probably because he believed that gods were
geographically located and if he had Israel’s soil perhaps Israel’s god would
give him favour. But there is a subtle message in the fact that he brought with
him gold and silver and took back dirt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">In the story of
Naaman, God has turned everything upside down. Social conventions, status quo,
the responsibility of kings and governments, and in the midst of this we even
ask ourselves the question of who has the right to health care? The story is
even more topsy turvy for us, because a Syrian is a powerful man and the
Syrians we know are now refugees wondering the earth. But this story addresses
the issue of the nobody as the Syrians wander the earth. Who had the power in
this story? Well God of course, but who has the voice of God, the authority?
The servants. God’s cure is given in grace, not with difficult tasks to
complete. And God has absolutely no respect for the boundaries, geographical,
social, political, and economic that we humans erect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"> Surely, the boundaries that we place around God’s love
cannot and will not hold God back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">Jesus refers to
this story in Luke 4 when he addresses the synagogue in his hometown<span class="woj"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><b><span style="color: black;">Luke 4<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Truly I tell you,”</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="color: black;">he continued,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“no prophet is accepted in his hometown.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;">25 </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in
Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a
severe famine throughout the land.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;">26 </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in
Zarephath in the region of Sidon.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;">27 </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And there were many in Israel with leprosy</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not
one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”</span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span class="text"><b><sup>28 </sup></b>All the people
in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text"><b><sup>29 </sup></b>They
got up, drove him out of the town,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text">and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in
order to throw him off the cliff.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text"><b><sup>30 </sup></b>But he walked right through the crowd and
went on his way.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="text">Is it any wonder they wanted to throw him off the cliff?</span></span></div>
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Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-91509759200878016592015-10-30T12:34:00.001-07:002015-10-30T15:02:49.021-07:00If John Wesley and his friends had Twitter<div class="MsoNormal">
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hate TULIPS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#freegrace<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>I <span style="text-indent: -1.5in;">@gwhitefield</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -1.5in;">I’d rather have a TULIP than lose my way.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -1.5in;">#assuranceofsalvation </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wonder what Grace thinks #shelovesmeshelovesmenot<o:p></o:p></div>
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@cwesleyhymns<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just wasn’t meant to be @mrsbennet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>#Shouldhavemovedfaster</div>
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought she loved me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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@MollyV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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@MollyV<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>@jwesleyonhishorse
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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@MollyV <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Watch
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@MollyV <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>shut
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@GWhitefield<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Let’s
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ouch
@MollyV pulled my hair<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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@MollyV<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are reasons one would rather sleep
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@MrsBennet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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@cwesleyhymns<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last
night there were so many preachers in the preaching house at
@methodistmeetinghousebristol that we broke the floor and landed on a pile of
tobacco<o:p></o:p></div>
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Must be time to build a New Room.
#maybeitwillstoppeoplefromthrowingstones<o:p></o:p></div>
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@MollyV<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Are
you sure it was all preachers in that room and not women?
#IdontrustyouasfarasIcanthrowyou<o:p></o:p></div>
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@jwesleyonhishorse [blocks] @MollyV<o:p></o:p></div>
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@cwesleyhymns<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s
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<br /></div>
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@jwesleyonhishorse<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get your knickers in a wad
@cwesleyhymns<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-30020705697011844172015-04-19T12:19:00.001-07:002015-04-19T12:20:54.720-07:00Easter 4B Acts 4:5-12; Psalm 23; I John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18 Sheep and Shepherds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Today we will look at the lectionary passages for Easter 4B in a sequence. It's not a chronological sequence, but a theological one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">This Jesus</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #0000bb;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">it has become the cornerstone.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Acts 4:11</span><br />
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<span style="color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Peter and John stand before the Sanhedrin, the very court that wanted to sentence Jesus to death but could not due to Roman law. With boldness that Peter did not have before the day of Pentecost, he preaches straight into the faces of those who hated Jesus and hated him. "IT WAS YOU WHO KILLED HIM." The stone rejected has become the cornerstone. The 'piece of trash' you threw out is now the feast. The man you thought you killed is alive, and nothing you can do can ever change that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">John 10:11</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The cornerstone is the good shepherd. He has laid down his life for the sheep. Sheep need led, and sheep have no natural defense. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">"Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff— they comfort me." Psalm 23:4</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Because he died he walks with his through this Holy Spirit. Peter could stand in boldness because the shepherd had laid down his life and now walked with him through the evil of the hypocritical religious leaders.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">"How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?" I John 3:17</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">All of this leads to one place: How do we live out the resurrection message of Christ? Do we take the chance to stand and preach? Do we help the one in need? Do we offer water to the thirsty, a sandwich to the man on the side of the road? Will we get out of our pews and pray with someone? Will we allow the 'outcast' into our nice clean sanctuaries? </span>Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-26496379027792191222015-04-14T15:40:00.002-07:002015-04-14T15:40:27.579-07:00Easter 3B Acts 3:12-19 The sermon after the healing of the lame man at the Temple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peter welcomes any opportunity to preach. Here he has a crowd with mouths gaping open that he has healed the lame man; the guy everyone walked past every single day. He was just a beggar with a cup, maybe a few people would take pity on him and drop in a few coins. The sermon is classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerygma" target="_blank">kerygma</a>, a pattern found throughout the book of Acts.<br />
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But today I am not thinking along the lines of classic kergyma commentary. Today I am thinking of opportunities to tell the good news of Jesus Christ that I miss every day. Today I am thinking of the beggars I see every day holding signs up at the stop lights. This seems to be the equivalent of catching people going into the temple. It must work or people wouldn't do it. I hand a dollar or two out my window. I've pushed blankets, jackets, and whatever food I have in the car into shaking hands. There is a well known homeless man that holds up a sign at a busy intersection near I-40 in Oklahoma City that says, 'Tough day? Yell at a bum! 50c an hour!' Now that is creative. I handed him a leftover burrito without yelling at him last time I saw him.<br />
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But would I say as Peter did to the beggar, what I have I gladly give? In the name of Jesus Christ stand up and walk? Or In the name of Jesus Christ, be healed of your addiction or bad luck or lack of job skills or mental illness that has caused you to beg for money in any way possible? Or am I afraid to speak to such people? And when I do stop and there are staring eyes, do I take the chance to speak to the curious eyes looking at a person so crazy to do more than hand a bum a dollar?<br />
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Then I ask myself, what is it about my culture that allows such people to beg for food? Why do we have so many homeless people in every single city? What is going on in our system? Am I seeking justice for the hungry?<br />
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The people of the village noticed that there were babies floating down the river. They kept pulling them out to save their lives. This is charity.<br />
After thousands of babies were pulled out of the river, one person asked, who is throwing these babies out of the river? I will walk up the river until I find out and put a stop to this.<br />
This is social justice.<br />
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Both are needed. The babies who have already been thrown in the river need to saved. But more will be saved in the long run if the people throwing the babies in are stopped.<br />
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Peter could have put in a coin, if he had one. Instead he healed the man in the power of the Holy Spirit.<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-9926783280026452872015-04-08T07:31:00.000-07:002015-04-08T07:31:16.738-07:00Easter 2B Acts 4:32-35, Psalm 133, I John 1:1-2:2, John 20:19-31 Doubt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Doubt is a part of faith but many evangelical denominations do not want to admit this. Yes, Jesus says blessed are those who do not see and yet believe, but how does he treat Thomas's doubt? He simply asks him to put his hand in the wounds. There is no shaming, no asking if he remembered the prophecies, only love. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When someone comes to be doubting their faith, or even doubting God I assure them that God can handle it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I find it interested that the Psalm and the Acts passage are about unity. How does this connect to Doubting Thomas? The disciples were gathered together when Jesus first appeared and Thomas was absent. We have never heard where he was. Was he hiding or did he have a legitimate excuse like a stomach virus? We will never know. Did his doubt bring more unity or less or did it affect it at all? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">'We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard,</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-30544G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30544G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> so that you also may have fellowship with us.' Thomas can say this now, but what about those of us who have not seen and heard and still doubt? Can we proclaim? Isn't that what the essence of faith is? This song expresses Doubting Thomas better than I ever could: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiHHIXKiAAY" target="_blank">Doubting Thomas Nickle Creek Live</a>/</span></span>Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-31807975458437012772015-04-02T07:11:00.001-07:002015-04-02T07:11:35.064-07:00Holy Week 2015Today is Maundy Thursday. As I rush through my dissertation-writing-teaching-mothering schedule I try to take a deep breath and remember Jesus.<br />
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Remember Jesus as he prepared for Passover with his closest friends.<br />
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Knowing.<br />
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Knowing that one would betray him.<br />
That one would deny him.<br />
That the rest would run away.<br />
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That he would be arrested later that night and suffer.<br />
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Suffer at the hands of the people who once said they loved him.<br />
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Did they?<br />
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Do I?<br />
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Do I love him enough?Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-12779404755297296572014-12-31T20:28:00.002-08:002014-12-31T20:28:49.856-08:00Should you pursue a PhD? I am a PhD candidate in Church History/Theology. I am in my fourth year of study. I have 69,000 words out of 80,000 written on my thesis. I am attending a British university where the PhD is 100% research, no classes.<br />
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Many of my masters-graduated friends ask me if they should pursue the terminal degree. This is my answer to all.<br />
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If you can do the following: you can make it.<br />
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1. Study. I mean study for hours a day.<br />
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2. Limit your social obligations. Here it is New Year's Eve and I am in my room with the door locked. I am not partying. You will have to give up many, many parties, events, that you once attended.<br />
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3. Rewrite. I remember vaguely the days of roughdraft-edit-final draft. Any paper or chapter that is a finished project has gone through at least <i>eight</i> drafts, usually more.<br />
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4. Take criticism. If your advisor/supervisor is doing their job, they will rip your work to pieces in the beginning. You have to be able to take it.<br />
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5. Be disciplined. When writing a thesis/dissertation, you have to set your own deadlines. No one will make you sit your butt in the chair and type except you.<br />
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6. Be humble. Education is a long lesson in humility. If you think you know everything you need to know and just need the letters at the end of your name, forget it. You won't make it past the first semester. The more you know, the more you will realize what you do not know.Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-51941001219577970082014-11-08T18:55:00.003-08:002014-11-08T18:55:48.324-08:00Ordinary 22 Proper 22 Matthew 7:13-14 The Two Paths Roads <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;">
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Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-46933877913972172732014-04-30T07:47:00.000-07:002014-04-30T07:47:15.906-07:00Easter 3 Walk to Emmaus Luke 24:13-49A favorite passage for many reasons. And so very easy to preach. But sometimes the easy passages to preach become difficult as you have preached them so many times. Perhaps this will give you a few insights.<br />
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1. They did not recognize him. Why not? Did he look different? Did he sound different? Or was it simply because, well, he died! Who expects the person they saw die 3 days ago to be walking next to them?<br />
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2. The Scriptures revealed to them who he was. The Gospels are careful to point out that Jesus as Messiah was a fulfillment of the prophecies.<br />
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3. They recognized him at the Table. Note he didn't ask if they believed before they sat down or even before he broke the bread. My tradition, Wesleyan, believes in an open table. We do not believe that there is any requirement for sharing the Lord's Supper except for a desire to know Jesus.<br />
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4. This passage may be used as a lens in which to interpret all of Scripture.<br />
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c. The Spirit reveals His Word at the Table.Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-22898045498912761422014-02-25T11:27:00.002-08:002014-02-25T11:27:32.753-08:00Last Epiphany Year A Transfiguration Sunday Matthew 17:1-9 Exodus 24:12-18There are two places in the Gospels where the disciples experience the full glory of Jesus. This is one; the other is the resurrection.<br />
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Jesus, on the mountain, like Moses in Exodus 24, encounters the glory of the father. The people cannot bear to witness Moses' face so he wears a veil. But the disciples look on the face of Jesus during the encounter and after. Jesus has revealed the power and presence of God in the flesh, something Moses could not do. Yet here we find Moses again!<br />
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1. How did Peter know it was Moses and Elijah? Jews did not carve statues of their leaders nor did they paint pictures of him. The only thing he could base their identity on was the prophecies.<br />
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2. Why did Peter want to build tabernacles for the three? Did he think he could keep them right there forever?<br />
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3. Why did Jesus only let three of his disciples view this and not the 12?<br />
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4. Why were the disciples afraid when the voice said This is my beloved son. Was it particularly loud? How did they know it was God's voice? Did God's voice sound anything like Jesus' voice?<br />
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5. Why did Jesus tell them not to tell anyone about this incident?<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-24013486930776988272014-02-03T09:48:00.002-08:002014-02-03T09:48:31.773-08:00Reflections on celebrity death [Philip Seymour Hoffman] and Superbowl Sunday Why does social media light up when one famous person is found dead of an overdose of illegal drugs but doesn't seem to say anything about the millions dying everyday from this epidemic? <div>
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Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-44453605633643515862013-10-10T19:21:00.000-07:002014-02-24T05:16:02.142-08:006 simple ways to break stigma of seeking psychotherapy <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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2. When your children struggle with anxiety or depression, take them to a therapist. Let them know early on that this is a normal, accepted thing to do.<br />
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3. Talk positively about psychiatry and psychology. The words, "head shrinking" or even "shrink" are negative and derogatory. Stop using them.<br />
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4. Refuse to use the word, "crazy" to describe someone with mental illness. Correct your children or family members when they do. "That person struggles, for everyone struggles with something," is a good reply.<br />
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5. Be thankful for medical research that has provided us with antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and psychotropics. Once human beings did not have the options we do today.<br />
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6. Watch the movies, "A Beautiful Mind," or "Lars and the Real Girl." They both tell deep, thought-provoking stories that give insight into mental disorders. "A Beautiful Mind" is especially well done at showing the distorted view of reality a person faces with a mental disorder or illness. The physician character in "Lars and the Real Girl" is beyond amazing.<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-61926070965090952412013-09-11T09:42:00.000-07:002014-02-24T05:13:44.408-08:00How to be a friend to someone suffering from depression<div>
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1. Practice empathy. Even if you have never been depressed, most likely you have felt down. Imagine yourself in the other person's place. Imagine a sadness that just doesn't leave. Imagine sorrow that can't be cured by a funny movie. Try to understand. Just try.<br />
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7. If they threaten suicide, take them seriously. If you think they are going to hurt themselves, call 911. They may get mad, they may not be your friend anymore, but what is more important, that your friend lives, or that they speak to you?</div>
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Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-37604500388307131632013-04-06T22:40:00.003-07:002013-09-12T19:02:48.053-07:00Depression is not a sign that you have a spiritual problem. Period.Today I read the sad sad sad news <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/04/06/176449059/pastor-rick-warrens-son-commits-suicide-church-says" rel="nofollow">Rick Warren's son committed suicide</a>.<br />
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I cannot imagine the pain the Warren family is experiencing. I visited Saddleback Church in 2010 and heard Rick Warren preach. He impressed me as a man who had no problem being honest in the pulpit. The first thing he said was, "So we all have problems. I like donuts. I eat too much." Saddleback church has an amazing ministry...but I know that nothing nothing nothing will make them feel better right now.<br />
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Over the past 12 years I have struggled with depression. I have been antidepressants 11 of those years. I have had thousands of hours of therapy. When I was at my worst, some well meaning Christian friends told me that if I was truly a Christian then I would not be depressed. I was told if I praised God more then I would feel better. I was told if I read the Bible more I would feel better. I was told if I prayed more I would feel better. At the time I was a senior pastor.<br />
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I SPENT HOURS AND HOURS PRAYING, PRAISING GOD AND READING THE BIBLE.<br />
And I DID NOT FEEL BETTER.<br />
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I spent hours begging God to make the dark shadows go away.<br />
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Even though my problem did not look physical, IT WAS PHYSICAL.<br />
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I may have looked like a healthy 20 something but inside I was dead. However, looking at pictures of myself from that time, I can see it on my face.<br />
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It was only through weekly therapy and finally antidepressants that the dark shadows gradually lightened. And when I say gradually, I mean gradually. It took about 2 1/2 years before I was 'better.' But I put 'better' lightly. I was never the same and I have never been the same.<br />
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Depression still lurks in the darkness. It is an ongoing mental illness that for some, like me, is never 'cured.' It is ongoing struggle that sometimes affects my spiritual life but has nothing to do with how much faith I have.<br />
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Through therapy and the support of my family and friends I have learned how to take care of myself to make sure I never hit the bottom again. The plan of self-help may be different for every person. This is what works for me. <br />
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I am not a health care professional and I am NOT GIVING MEDICAL advice.<br />
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If you THINK YOU ARE depressed, SEE YOUR DOCTOR.<br />
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1. I stay on my antidepressants. I have never tried to go off of them. I see absolutely no shame in taking a pill a day. If you are on antidepressants, NEVER EVER take yourself off of them without a physician's supervision. Some people only need a short term prescription to get them back on their feet, but I have never ever wanted to return to the person I was before them, so I don't see the need to go off of them.<br />
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2. I see a therapist regularly. The first therapist I saw was an LSW who had also been to seminary. She was a godsend and I think she saved my life. I saw her once a week for 2 1/2 years. I moved away and found another after a couple of tries. You have to find someone that fits for you. Don't get discouraged if your first visit with a therapist doesn't go well. Try another. Now I don't need to see one every week, but I know I can call her if I need an appointment. She knows me and that is important. "I don't have money or insurance," you might say. Ask around. Ask your pastor, rabbi, imam, or teacher. If you are a student, most schools offer some free therapy. There are free and reduced clinics. If you are depressed, you really need to see a professional.<br />
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3. I have learned my limits. I am not a person who can get by on 4 hours of sleep a night. I have to have 7-8 or I can not function. Of course there were times in my life when this did not happen. But I have learned that I must catch up somehow. I don't feel guilty for napping.<br />
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4. I have learned to say no. I have to watch my stress level. If my schedule gets too busy, I get stressed. If I get too stressed, I get depressed. I have to say no often when it comes to church volunteering, etc, or extra work projects.<br />
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5. I have learned what relieves my stress and I practice those things regularly. It may take a while before you figure this out. It took me 2 years. I found that I love, love, love sewing, especially quilting. Getting immediate results from my efforts, seeing the beauty I create. You can see my projects at <a href="http://www.quiltquatastrophes.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">My quilt blog</a>. I also need to exercise. I walk my dog, I do yoga, I ride my bike.<br />
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6. I speak out. Just about everyone who knows me knows I have depression. I do not tell people this so they pity me. I tell them so they don't get offended by my sad expressions. I want other people to know it is OK to be depressed, it is not a sin, it is not shameful.<br />
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7. I stay connected to a healthy community of faith. I could not survive without my church. Not all churches are safe places for depressed people. If you do not feel safe in your church, it may be time to seek another. A safe church for a depressed person is one that allows that person to feel sad. If I do not feel like singing in worship, no one expects me to. My pastor says from the pulpit, "Worship in the way you feel comfortable." Sometimes I am too depressed to stand and sing. Sometimes I just want to sit and cry while others sing. My church leaders do not expect me to be someone I am not.<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-17088813403700468132013-03-31T20:21:00.002-07:002013-03-31T20:21:54.569-07:00Easter Sunday John 20 He is Risen!Every other Sunday is a rehearsal for this one.<br />
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Every church should celebrate today.<br />
<br />If they don't, then they don't get what this Christian stuff is all about.<br />
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Bring out the loudest music.<br />
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He is risen and we can't keep quiet.<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-35161481731628919432013-03-29T21:23:00.002-07:002013-03-29T21:23:53.852-07:00Good Friday The Passion of the ChristIf I look back far enough I remember the first time that I 'got' Good Friday. I was 7.<br /><br />I watched some movie about the life of Jesus at a theater. I don't know know which one it was. I have researched but haven't found the answer. It could have been the 1979 version of the Jesus movie that was updated in 1989.<br /><br />But it was 1979. Movies were not so easily watched then. It was the days before digital download, itunes, DVDS, and even before VHS, if anyone still remembers that. I know the VHS was invented but it had not become household, at least not for families like mine who had little cash to spare. We had a black & white TV with a large antenna.<br />
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I had been to church that morning.<br />
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But seeing the crucifixion on the screen...it was nothing like the Passion of the Christ. It was rated PG. There was not that much blood. But I could not believe anyone would do that to my Jesus. Lumps in my throat. Agony. I cried. I shut my eyes. I decided I could not bear to watch something like that again.<br />
<br />Fast forward to 2004. Everyone is raging about the Passion of the Christ. All the staff at my church went to see it the night it came out: Ash Wednesday. I avoided it like the plague.<br />
<br />But I am a Bible professor and of course all my students began questioning me about it. So I went to watch it. Alone.<br />
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I was not alone in the theater but the experience itself was surreal. There was a group of women in front of me: about 20 of all ages that cried like the women following Jesus in the film.<br /><br />The group behind me was eating popcorn, drinking Cokes and even making inappropriate comments.<br />
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I sat alone, shaking. Wondering how anyone could eat and watch something so gory at the same time. This is not just a normal movie for your entertainment! I wanted to shriek at them.<br />
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About the time they crammed the crown of thorns on his head, I left. I couldn't take it anymore.<br />
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There is no way anyone could have survived that loss of blood as long as it took. They went overboard. I understand why. but I can't watch.<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-11635160745250782812013-03-27T17:34:00.000-07:002013-03-27T17:34:00.762-07:00Good Friday Reflections on the Stations of the Cross. Station 13. <br />
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Mark 15:47 says that she was there as the body was taken down. Every mother in
the world knows that she needed one last time to hold her child, to remember
struggle of his birth, to see his life flash before her eyes. There are no
words to express the deepest darkest depths of agony that she felt. There are
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empire, of men’s fears that led to treachery, violence, and now death. Did she
remember his promises of rising on the third day? If she did they were
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mother symbolizes every mother who has watched her child suffer. May even in
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and last time. This time he has reached the place of his death, the hill called
Golgotha, the place of the skull. They are now outside the city. The crowds
continue to push and yell and scream. He remains on the ground as the soldiers
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the thought of your intense agony. We recoil in horror at the thought of nails
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Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-67945759924476734812013-03-27T17:28:00.002-07:002013-03-27T17:28:44.613-07:00Good Friday: Reflections on the Stations of the Cross. Station 7.<br />
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again. He is deeply exhausted from the loss of blood for he has been flogged
with a cat of nine tails. The soldier hit him 39 times on the back with the
whip. His knees scrape the ground. He is
dehydrated and shaking. Yet the soldiers drag him to his feet. It was their job
to get him alive to the place of execution. Yet he forgives even them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have the strength to forgive those who have inflicted pain upon me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-55738423448128983362013-03-27T17:27:00.002-07:002013-03-27T17:31:11.243-07:00Good Friday: Reflections of the Stations of the Cross. Station 6<br />
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tradition tells us that a woman named Veronica offered her veil to Jesus so he could
wipe his face. He wiped his face and gave it back and she saved it with his
imprint to remember his suffering. A woman, unveiled, was shameful, but her
fear of shame left as her compassion for him outweighed social norm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have been willing to risk my own shame and even my own death to offer
compassion to you? Let me remember that every suffering person I meet on the
road today is you. And let me offer aid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mary, his mother. She looks into his eyes. How can she bear this burden of
pain? She remembers the prophecy of Simeon who said ‘A sword will pierce your
heart.’ The sword has pierced. She feels the pain of the twist. If she could
bear this burden for him she would. But she knows it is his. She says nothing,
but he knows her love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sometimes it hurts worse when I see the pain in the eyes of others than when I
feel it myself. May I never purposely cause pain for those I love and may I
always have someone who loves me to look in my eyes and share my pain when I
travel in anguish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-29507282522670137552013-03-13T21:43:00.000-07:002013-03-13T21:44:43.107-07:00Lent 4 C Luke 15:1-32The lost sheep. The prodigal son.<br />
Just saw Les Mis. Yeah I know I am behind. Victor Hugo captured the story of redemption. <br />
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Fontaine the prodigal? Or Valjean the prodigal? Yes. <br />
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And heaven a barricade? <br />
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Or is heaven simply liberty? Do we all see it in the context in which we lived? <br />
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I dreamed a dream.<br />
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But my favourite line<br />
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To love someone is to see the face of God. In loving Cosette Valjean was redeemed.<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-51541571942860446102013-03-13T21:42:00.000-07:002013-03-13T21:43:05.035-07:00Election of Pope Francis IWell I guess it's time to join every other blogger and talk about the new pope. I am not Roman Catholic. But I am Christian. I am far enough in history away from Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli and even Henry VIII to say that the Holy Father in some sense does represent me though I am Protestant.<br />
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Today the whole world waited for the white smoke. And when it was seen there was no waiting for it to be broadcast in the next morning's news, or for the newspapers to be published. Everyone in in the world knew within seconds that the white smoke ascended via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and every other social media venue represented in St. Peter's Square.<br />
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Why did Protestants care who was elected? Didn't 'we' PROTEST the Papacy 500 years ago?<br />
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Why did Americans care who was elected? Didn't 'we' declare over 200 years ago that we would be rule ourselves and not allow a religious state to interfere?<br />
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Why did the English care who was elected? Didn't the English King say 500 years ago that he would do as he pleased no matter what the Holy Father said? And then make himself the Head of the Church?<br />
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Why is everyone so interested? Why do we think it mattered? I want to hear your opinions! Tell me.Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-9539038479630270762013-02-27T21:40:00.002-08:002013-02-27T21:41:11.153-08:00100th post Lent 3C Luke 13:1-9 I have made it full circle. I am now posting comments on passages that I commented on 3 years ago in the lectionary cycle.<br />
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This is my 100th post.<br />
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I am proud. In a humble, Christian way, of course. ;-)<br />
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Luke 13:1-9 finds Jesus answering a question that well ask sooner or later. Why do some suffer more than others? Do the consequences people face match the in they commit.<br />
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Jesus answers with a story like he usually does. He answers with stories that leave us to interpret. And we have a much more difficult job interpreting than his hearers as we are separated by 2000 plus years from them.<br />
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His answer seems to be filled with grace. The gardener shows grace to the tree. He wants to give it just one more chance to produce fruit.<br />
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The answer could not be more simple. Give one more chance. That seems to be what God does with his people over and over. Give them another chance.<br />
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<br />Kelly Yates, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00284851569626211746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1296779303616005523.post-65324880206795910472013-02-26T17:01:00.004-08:002013-02-26T17:02:30.422-08:00Lent 3 C Isaiah 55:1-13 If you are thirstyThese words from Isaiah are often quoted.<br />
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