Exodus 17:1- 7 Psalm 95 Romans 5:1-11 John 4:5-42 Jesus asks us to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, minds and strength, to love others as ourselves and to love our enemies. He asks us to not be anxious and to take up our crosses daily, losing ourselves in our calling to […]
Genesis 12:1-4a Psalm 121 Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17 How can these things be? Nicodemus reacts to Jesus’ call to be born from above. Paul knows God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls into being the things that do not exist. Jesus says that as his followers we enter into […]
Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 Psalm 32 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11 If you are the Son of God… If you are the Son of God… The principalities and powers heard the Voice, This is my Son, and they heard the testimonies of John. The Son of God famished? How could it be that God would be weak; […]
How are we to approach this well worn story of Jesus’ transfiguration. We are familiar with its glory, the audacity of Peter and the voice from the bright cloud. Peter says of himself in the letter, we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known the power and coming of the Lord. Lord, […]
Isaiah 58:1-9a (9b-12) Psalm 112:1-9 (10) 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16) Matthew 5:13-20 Devotional Resource And we are salt and we are light- salt of the earth and light of the world. Salt speaks of purity and wisdom, light of our Lord Jesus Christ. When purity and wisdom have lost their taste, they are of no […]
Fourth Sunday after Epihany Listen Children of God, little ones, beloved of God; those who make peace; those who are poor in spirit. Merciful, we mourn for a world where power rules and in this place, as those who appear foolish, we say, listen principalities and powers look and see, we are meek but in […]
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