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Romans 3:21-31

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Patrick J. Rooney

It does seem a bit unfair, putting me in the same category as Hitler, Stalin, or some of our more recent bad boys such as Osama bin Laden and his cronies. It does seem unfair to equate my own few failings with the level of their crimes against humanity. It is unfair to say that my sins can in any way be compared to theirs. They are evil and I am just a simple, frail human being, hardly worthy of b...

2. Filling the Job Description

Hebrews 5:1-10

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Patrick J. Rooney

It was probably one of the most difficult and certainly one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. I had gone for a job interview, a job I needed very much. Fresh out on the street following college, I was filled with all the expectations of a new graduate, believing that I could conquer the world if I but raised my banner high into the heavens. The job was a good one, at a place that would ...

3. Hope on The Day of Judgment

Hebrews 9:24-28

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Patrick J. Rooney

Standing in the parlor at church that day was not unlike the many other occasions when I had attended a family upon the death of one they had loved. Moving from person to person, group to group, I greeted each with words of comfort, consolation, and hope. I was a pastor going about my normal pastoral work, preparing to begin the funeral rite for yet another saint of the church. Amid the whispers, ...

4. Interceding for Us Now

Hebrews 7:23-28

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Patrick J. Rooney

Heads bowed, hands clasped, the words are spoken softly and gently. A prayer is lifted up for this need, for that person, for those in trouble or affliction. There is need, want, despair — for someone or for many. A hope is voiced that God will intervene, help, safeguard, or assist. Then, with these needs and wants laid before God, the prayer ends, "In Jesus' name we pray. Amen." That's it; that's...

5. Long Live The King

Revelation 1:4-8

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Patrick J. Rooney

I was just a little shy of my fifth birthday, so all the images are not completely clear. We were in the cinema watching the newsreels on the screen. This was in the days before most of us had televisions in our homes. My brother and I would go to the cinema on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons and movies such as the Sign of Zorro. But first there were the newsreels, solemn voices reciting the g...

6. Praying in Boldness and Faith

Hebrews 4:12-16

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Patrick J. Rooney

It is the holiest of days. And on this holy day, the day of atonement, a man stands alone inside the great temple, stands at the very heart of the temple itself, stands in front of that place named the holy of holies, the very mercy seat of God. A massive curtain soars above him dividing off this holy of holies from the rest of the temple. One man alone comes this far, daring to tread upon this mo...

7. The Eternal Sanctuary

Hebrews 9:11-14

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Patrick J. Rooney

It happens week after week, sometimes day after day. It happens on the sabbath day, or on a Wednesday, or on Saturday nights. Then it is that the people of God rise up to leave their homes and make their way to a place of worship. For some, it will be a small place, charming in its beauty as it sits amidst the bucolic setting of a village green. For some, it will be a place filled with stained-gla...

8. The Great Thanksgiving

1 Timothy 2:1-7

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Patrick J. Rooney

It is not only Thanksgiving Day, but a day of thanksgiving. It is a day set apart in the life of this nation in which we offer thanks for all the blessings bestowed upon us. I was not raised in this land and therefore I am not a native here. Thanksgiving Day as a special day set apart was not something that I grew up with for the first thirty years of my life. Even though I have now lived in the U...

9. The Perfect Sacrifice

Hebrews 10:11-25

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Patrick J. Rooney

They came day after day in a steady stream, entering the temple with a mixture of excitement and anticipation. They came bearing their gifts, animals of various kinds to be presented to the priests. They came bringing their sacrifice for purification of sins and to make reparation to God. They came to make their offerings to the priests, who would take such offerings to the altar of the Lord and b...

10. Wiping Away the Tears

Revelation 21:1-6

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Patrick J. Rooney

It is one line. A few words cast upon a sea of words. One line that sums up all that this day is about and what it represents. One line upon which every human hope finds its fulfillment. One line in which we place our trust. One line that every man, woman, and child turns to when the losses of this life are more than they can bear. One line when the woman stands sobbing quietly beside the hospital...

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