1/17 Readings: You Don’t Know What It Is January 11, 2021 Sunday's Readings 2 Epiphany I Sam. 3:1-10 (11-20) Ps. 139:1-5, 12-17 I Cor. 6:12-20 John 1:43-51 "You did not choose me, but I chose you" (John 15:16). These words of Jesus challenge the idea that we accept Jesus Christ ... Read more...
1/10 Readings: Every Creature January 4, 2021 Sunday's Readings 1 Epiphany Gen. 1:1-5 Ps. 29 Acts 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11 Jesus Christ came to his own (John 1:11). In the fullness of time, he was revealed to the Gentiles, the whole human world, and, lest we forget, he was... Read more...
1/3 Readings: Every Blessing December 28, 2020 Sunday's Readings We have been blessed, in Christ, by all that the Father gives to the Son, which is an inexhaustible treasure. The gifts of grace and adoption and fullness are rooted in God’s eternal and inscrutable will.
12/27 Readings: The True Light and a True Christmas December 21, 2020 Sunday's Readings Though dead in our sin and lost in our rejection of Christ, Christ continues to pursue us in judgment and mercy.
12/13 Readings: Love and Vengeance December 8, 2020 Sunday's Readings John the Baptist said, “I am not the Messiah, I am not, no!” Similarly, we are not the cause of our own salvation. No. We are witnesses, vessels, New Beings. Purged of sin and born again, we shine like the brightness of the sun.
12/6 Readings: Migration December 1, 2020 Sunday's Readings For a full 70 years, the people of God wept and hoped for a return to their land and their temple.
11/29 Readings: The Heavens Opened November 23, 2020 Sunday's Readings God has come in the calling of a people, in their journey to freedom and responsibility under the law and as a nation.
11/22 Readings: The New Kingdom November 17, 2020 Sunday's Readings The prophet’s promise of a return to the land of Israel is, in Christian terms, a foreshadowing of the reign of Christ over all the peoples of the earth.
11/15 Readings: The Giver of All Good November 10, 2020 Sunday's Readings The wrong kind of fear and an incorrect understanding of God can foster a life of trepidation and caution, a life devoid of prudent risk and joy.
11/8 Readings: Order and Purgation November 2, 2020 Sunday's Readings Keep awake, Jesus says. Be prepared. Waiting is not only the wisdom of carrying extra oil but the process of purgation. Patience is the pain of being stripped and made new.