Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
This morning one of our small groups met and I started Joyce Rupp’s “The Cup of Our Lives” with them. It thought it went really…
Jesus Christ
Lectionary Leanings – Glimmer of Light
January 4Isaiah 60:1-6, Psalm 72, Ephesians 1:3-14, Matthew 2:2-12 While our church year technically begins with the Advent season, Epiphany has always struck me as…
Good Tidings of Great Joy!
While the Advent journey takes us through an emotional rollercoaster of joy, fear, humility, and anticipation, there is no other emotion to guide the days…
Lectionary Leanings – Celebrate!
December 28Isaiah 61:10-62:3, Psalm 148, Galatians 4:4-7, Luke 2:22-40 While the Advent journey takes us through an emotional rollercoaster of joy, fear, humility, and anticipation,…
Let it Be with Me…
This is our fourth week of waiting for that coming of Christ – and we are so close we can almost taste it! We are…
Lectionary Leanings – All Will Be Well
December 14Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11, Psalm 126 or Luke 1:47-55, I Thess. 5:16-24 , John 1:6-8, 19-28 A few summers ago in seminary, I participated in…
Lectionary Leanings
The second installment of my articles for the Circuit Rider: December 7Isaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13,II Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8Anticipation is not an emotion that…
Wake Up!
This news story was posted yesterday on Yahoo News – “Sebastian D’Souza hears the gunfire at (shah-trapati shiv-a-ji)) Terminus from his office across the street…