Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? Christ is Risen, He is Risen Indeed!

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Peace Lutheran is the church were D and I are members. Following our horrific nightmare of a departure from another church in another denomination the pastor and congregation of Peace welcomed us with open, healing arms. Though ordained in another denomination, they honored me by recognizing my heart and commitment as a pastor and have [...]

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. Loss is Indeed Our Gain The pushing and shoving of the world is endless. …..We are pushed and shoved. …..And we do our fair share of pushing and shoving ……….in our great anxiety. And in the middle of that ……….you have set down your beloved suffering son ……….who was like a sheep lead to [...]

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All in all this wasn’t the best of years for GLBTQ and justice-minded folks. There was Rick Warren at the Presidential Inauguration in January, this summer’s hubbub around Carrie Prejean’s statement concerning same-sex marriage at the Miss USA Pageant,  the horrific consideration of a Kill the Gays Bill in Uganda in recent weeks, and the [...]

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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, favoured one! The Lord is with you. But [...]

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Okay, so confess. Did some of you think to use a spell-check program to find the typos or are you really that speedy and observant? However you did it color me impressed! As you can tell in looking at the comments, Salt was the first to turn the right answer around and so congrats to [...]

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And the final day and once again, the prize, may I say, rocks! But first, let’s put our hands together and give a hearty dose of applause magic to Susan, yesterday’s lucky draw contest winner. Susan, I can see it now. You at Starbucks with your venti mocha extra-hot half-caf/decaf latte in one hand and [...]

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And the winner of 100 temporary tattoos and 50 Target buckarooni’s is commenter number 17, Lisa! Lisa, your timing was perfection so congratulations dear girl! Now get your mailing address off to me at anita@sisterfriends-together.org so you can begin the new year bedecked in some significantly cool tats. Today’s Contest: It’s the Saturday before Christmas [...]

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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner! Winner found yesterday’s hidden Christmas image (Click on the WordPress logo located at the bottom right hand corner of the site) in record time and as a result will be sporting a snappy pair of Bug-Eye Glasses and jewelry from Beads for Life this Christmas. And Winner, you might want to [...]

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And the individual who correctly guessed what Christmas song has been stuck in my head for days is…no one! That’s right, losers each and every one of you. And while I’m more than a little relieved no one was able to crawl inside my head and know what was bouncing around in there, I’m sorry [...]

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