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Author: Peter Woods

  • 2011 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 70,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see…

  • The Original Love Language – Baptism of Jesus

    Mark 1:4-11 John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel’s…

  • Were those camel riders “Wise Guys”?

    (I am captivated by and participating in the beauty of Port Alfred in this Christ Mass week and so too lazy to write a full Blog) Here is my micro sketch of my sermon for Epiphany this Sunday. I have been contemplating how the Magi contrast with the rash of arrogant religious Wise Guys out…

  • Particles in the Cosmic Crib – Christ Mass Day

    John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light…

  • Christ Mass Greeting

  • Just say, “Yes. Let it be…”

    Luke 1:26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with…

  • Jesus the untouchable deal breaker – Advent 3b

    John 1:6-28 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.…

  • Channeling God -Advent 2b

    Mark 1:1-8 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths…

  • Who put the “i” in Surprise? – Advent 1b

    Mark 13:24-37 “But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory.…

  • The Feast of Christ the Comrade (Christ the King/Reign of Christ A)

    Matthew 25:31-46 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will…