Meeting Jesus
I ran across an online ad today which announced the first Sunday service of a new church in the area. Being a bit curious about it I...
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Nick Vleisides
- Jan 19, 2022
- 4 min
Short Way to God
Ewan McGregor, of Star Wars fame (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and many other films, has produced several adventure documentaries over the years...
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Nick Vleisides
- Dec 23, 2021
- 9 min
I-M-M-A-N-U-E-L
One early morning a couple of weeks before Christmas when living in Austin I was having breakfast with several friends and my fire...
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Nick Vleisides
- Dec 8, 2021
- 9 min
ON LOSING YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST
It was Christmas, and I was beholding a holiday spectacle of neatly wrapped and colorful presents. There were scarlet red boxes with...
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Nick Vleisides
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
The World According to Burt Bacharach
In the mid-sixties I recall when my parents, trying to be hip with the times, purchased a console stereo for our home. It was a rather...
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Nick Vleisides
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Used to Go to Church: "That's me!"
Recently I spent a day at a high school speaking to health classes about anxiety, depression and suicide. As a law enforcement chaplain,...
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Nick Vleisides
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
It Is Finished! No! Wait! I'm Not Quite There Yet!
Franciscan priest and Catholic mystic writes in his book, The Universal Christ, "The Christian life is simply becoming who we already...
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Nick Vleisides
- Jul 21, 2021
- 5 min
SAVED TO...
My buddy Ron and I decided to take my dad’s eighteen foot outboard boat out for a late afternoon shark fishing adventure. We were just...
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Nick Vleisides
- Jun 25, 2021
- 5 min
I Think, Therefore I Think
I think this. I don’t know this, but I think it. I’ve never liked the concept of hell, the place of eternal torment and separation from...
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Nick Vleisides
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
Death Changed Me
I think a lot about death. Can't help it. I've been on hundreds of chaplain calls over the years where a death has occurred. Almost...
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Nick Vleisides
- May 1, 2021
- 5 min
The 150,000
The San Ramon Valley, where I live and serve as a first responder chaplain, has a population of around 170,000. It is located in the...
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Nick Vleisides
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
Heaven or Not
Just got home and TV was on. A commercial caught my attention which was addressing something about heaven. It caught my attention...
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Nick Vleisides
- Mar 20, 2021
- 2 min
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!
I don’t know. So many people around where I live used to go to church. They’ve been there. Done that. If they walked into a church on any...
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Nick Vleisides
- Mar 1, 2021
- 4 min
Fleetwood Mac on Any Sunday
I think it must have been maybe the summer of 1975, take or add a year. My buddy Bill and I drove up from San Clemente to the University...
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Nick Vleisides
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
The Older I Get
The older I get the more I am willing to admit that I don’t have all the answers and that I do not need all the answers. I’m not saying...
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Nick Vleisides
- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
OBSERVATIONS
In A Grief Observed, CS Lewis journals his thoughts and emotions after the tragic loss of his wife/lover who succumbed to cancer. Over...
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Nick Vleisides
- Dec 21, 2020
- 4 min
For The Love of Christ
Many of the chaplain call outs I or my chaplain team responds to are for older adults who suddenly passed away at home. I would not call...
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Nick Vleisides
- Dec 7, 2020
- 4 min
To Infinity and Beyond!
My twenty-one-year-old son happened to be passing through the kitchen the other night. That’s where the food is. He’s not a man of many...
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Nick Vleisides
- Nov 23, 2020
- 3 min
Pray for Safety
"Lord, keep him safe. Dear, God watch over her." Have you ever prayed that way? Do you now? I sure have. But in recent years I have...
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Nick Vleisides
- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
The Point of Jesus
The point of Jesus was to reveal God. However, who Jesus revealed God to be, was diametrically opposed to the exacting, condemning,...
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