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Sunday 9:00 a.m. Choir Rehearsal 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship |
Fortune Tellers vs. Truth Tellers Rev. Javier Olivares Jan-13-2008
Last week we ordered Chinese food and you know how at the end you’re curious about what the fortune cookie says. Somy daughter’s cookie said something about health, my son’s about prosperity and when it was my wife’s turn it read: “You’ll be having a romantic dinner this evening”. We looked at each other, then we looked at the kids and said: “No Way”.
Remember Y2K? When they said that the computers were going to crash, that it would be a disaster, perhaps the end..?
It’s hard to tell the future, and yet there are market analysts, Pentagon wizards in Washington
(“When we get into Iraq, we will find WMDs”), and pseudo-prophets and soothsayers who do this sort of thing all the time.
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The Pharisee & The Tax Collector” Rev. Javier Olivares Oct-28-2007
Today’s parable seems that there’s only one choice: to be like the tax collector. But I think we can see positive things from the Pharisee.
Pharisees often prayed and went to the temple and did all the proper religious duties
-- so they certainly must be trusting God not themselves. The Pharisees were not villains. They were dedicated to observing the law.
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According to temple standards, Pharisees are the "good guys" -- the "righteous" -- and this Pharisee does even more "good" stuff than the ordinary Pharisee.
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“HALF DEAD OR WHOLE LIFE?” Rev. Javier Olivares Oct-212007
Most things that begin with the adjective "half" are bad news.
Half-baked -- not good for cakes, cookies or creativity.
Half-life -- things like nuclear waste that always last about 10,000 years longer than any of us will be alive.
Half-done -- when you still have to do as much as you've already completed.
Halftime -- especially bad and over-blown during the Super Bowl.
Half-dead -- never the look you want to go for.
Half-alive -- which always begs the question "Which half?"
Half-price -- what's wrong with it?
Half-crazy -- just sane enough to be out on the streets.
Half-grown -- a teenager!
Half-gone -- a teenager's parent!
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