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May 2, 2012

Volume 129, Issue #9

Lectionary

Love without obedience (John 15:9-17)

My desire to clean the kitchen was an exercise of love. Then my mom asked me to do what I was already planning to do—and my gift turned into affliction.

Easter 5B (Acts 8:26-40)

I used to read this as a story of Philip’s boldness and willingness to go even to the stranger to declare the truth. Now I understand just how little Philip knows.

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