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Is God With Us?

On the Shoulders or On the Rock

Exodus 7: 1-7

If you’ve been following the story of the Exodus so far, then it will come as no surprise to you that the children of Israel wandering in the desert are complaining. This time, they want water! Once again Moses is on the spot. But God reassures him. Strike the rock with your stick, and water will come out of it. What God actually says, is: “Here, I stand before you on the rock at Horev. You are to strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people shall drink.” Moses does what God says and the people drink. And Moses calls the place Massah and Meriba, “testing” and “quarreling,” because of the contentious questioning of the people, who wondered, according to scripture: “Is God among us, or not?”[1]Read More »Is God With Us?

The Holy Trinity: The Many Faces of God

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Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Romans 5:1-5

St. John 16:12-15

My years acting gave me a different perspective on what it means to be a human being. I have played MacBeth, the tyrannical, power-hungry King of Scotland. I have played one of the ditzy star-crossed lovers in A Midsummer’s Night Dream. I played a comic character in Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor and Don Juan in Man and Superman and lots of what are called “spear-carrier” roles, where you’re really nobody but simply a tool to carry forward the plot, you know, the messenger or something. And I’ve played Jesus Christ.Read More »The Holy Trinity: The Many Faces of God