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The Rev. Dr. Peter Samuelson
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Conversing at the Coffee Hour

The Rev. Dr. Peter L. Samuelson (ELCA)

I like to think of this blog, the Day1 website and, perhaps by extension the whole social networking/exchange of ideas aspect of the internet, as one big church coffee hour.   At the coffee hour you have a chance to catch up with old friends, maybe meet some new people, perhaps "chew" over the sermon, but at the very least have some interesting conversation.  And just like I would do at a coffee hour I was visiting for the first time (this is my first blog after all), I should introduce myself.

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Epiphanies

Psalm 50, Mark 9:2-9

Transfiguration Sunday - Year B

February 22, 2009

The Rev. Geoffrey Hoare (TEC)

In any congregation of Christians there are some people who can say they have been blessed with an Epiphany, a powerful manifestation or experience of God. There are many more people who fervently wish that such a gift would be granted them and who imagine that if only they could have a conversion or they could have a 'mountain top' experience, then their faith would not be so difficult. They imagine that belief would be easier to come by if they could be as clear as they imagine those around them to be. And then there are yet others who have moved beyond any hope or expectation of such epiphanies in their lives rather in the spirit of what Jesus once said to Thomas: 'Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe' (John 20:29).

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