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March 8, 2026: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Now, whenever this gospel text comes around, I always need to address some misconceptions about what is going on here, so that we can understand the original meaning, and then get to how that will help us today. First, how many of you, when Jesus approached the well, thought “Awesome – I love a good rom-com!” You didn’t? Well, those who heard it told in the first century definitely would have thought that, because they had seen this story set up before. A man travels through a foreign country and encounters a woman at a well. They get married and have many children. Why would they think that? Well, it’s the biblical equivalent of a scene where a smart city woman accidently bumps into a good looking guy in a flannel shirt on a Christmas tree…

March 1, 2026: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. It would seem we are once again at war. Yesterday, our country again attacked another country without provocation. In this attack, we teamed with another nation already accused of war crimes. This unconstitutional act, one of many by this President, has and will, kill and injure innocent people. We must all hang our heads in shame, but none more than our Congress, who sits by while this illegal power grab endangers us and other countries around the world. One can only wonder how things might have been had the President not torn apart the 2015 treaty with Iran on nuclear disarmament? And all of it, all this carnage, likely has been done to distract us from what was found to have been removed from the release of the Epstein files. How many more people will have…

February 8, 226: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. You know, when I left Minneapolis and the -35 windchill weather, I did NOT remember packing that cold air to bring back to New Jersey. Lordy! I had hoped to leave that behind, but it is smacking us in the face now, isn’t it? I am glad to be inside this time, rather than out in it for hours marching down the street. I am also grateful to those of you who ventured out into this insane cold to be here this morning. Perhaps we all have a better appreciation for the people of Minneapolis and all they do in weather colder than this. So, given all the ice that is around these days, on the sidewalks and armed in the street of our cities, I was glad to hear the texts for today. In the…