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GOD AND MONEY
Luke 16: 1-13 Well, hands down this may be the most confounding of all the gospel teachings. According to the commentaries this is the...
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Sep 22, 2025
BREAD FOR EACH OTHER
Skid Row in Los Angeles has roughly 10,000 homeless, poor, and marginally employed residents. The area, with its numerous street...
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Sep 14, 2025
INSIDERS / OUTSIDERS
Luke 14:1,7-14 Before I took monastic vows and entered the monastery, I lived in Burbank. There was a small locally owned diner I used to...
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Sep 1, 2025
JESUS THE LIBERATOR
Luke 13:10-17 In Luke’s Gospel we hear the story of the healing of the crippled woman. This poor woman had been bent over and unable to...
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Aug 25, 2025
PEACE AMID CHAOS
“Preserve your inner peace at any cost. Do not trade your inner peace for anything in the world. Make peace with yourself, and heaven and...
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Aug 11, 2025
THE FOOLISHNESS OF GREED
Luke 12. 13-21 Sometimes, a teaching of Jesus stands on its own with little need for interpretation. This teaching feels like one of...
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Aug 3, 2025
PRAYERS UNANSWERED
“So, I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.” Isn’t it...
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Jul 28, 2025
THE SACRAMENT OF PRESENCE
Luke 10:38-42 The scene from the story of Jesus’ visit to the home of Martha and Mary has Martha busying herself in the kitchen preparing...
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Jul 20, 2025
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