Readings: Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14; Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12 They made it! The Wise Men have ARRIVED!!! And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were filled with joy! […]
Readings: Psalm 72; Joshua 1:1-9; Hebrews 11:32-12:2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before […]
Readings: Psalm 72; Exodus 3:1-5; Hebrews 11:23-31 As the visit of the Magi approaches, heralding the time when Jesus would be presented as the Savior of all mankind, I sense in myself the sadness that will come with taking down the tree and the lights and letting go of the season for another year. And […]
Readings: Psalm 72; Genesis 28:10-22; Hebrews 11:13-22 This morning the alarm went off very early and as I sat up to start my first day back to work after 11 days off, the cats both looked at me like I’d lost my mind. The continued to be confused as I sorted my morning out and […]
Readings: Psalm 20; Genesis 12:1-7; Hebrews 11:1-12 A year ago I was really excited about 2016 would bring. I would turn 40 in a month. I believed that I had a plan to turn things around at a job that I hated. I believed that by year’s end, we’d have chosen our first woman president. […]
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:1-13; Psalm 8; Revelation 21:1-6; Matthew 25:31-46 Happy New Year sweet friends! He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to […]
Readings: Psalm 20; 1 Kings 3:5-14: John 8:12-19 What will you ask for in 2017? Who do you want to be? What will your life look like 365 days from now? These are the questions I ask myself each year as the year ends and turn to something new. This year I know that I […]
Readings: Psalm 20; Isaiah 26:1-9; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 As the year creeps to a close, I imagine the anticipation of the Magi as they started to make serious ground on their journey towards the Christ child. As the Star felt nearer and nearer, they must have begun to sense the change in the world at […]
Readings: Psalm 20; Jeremiah 31:15-22; Luke 19:41-44 For the Lord will cause something new to happen (Jeremiah 31:22a) The baby has been born. He is healthy and his mother is healing. And in the east, a Star…shines brightly…guiding the Magi towards the prophecy that they have been drawn to from their homeland. A new thought. […]
Readings: Psalm 148; Isaiah 49:13-23; Matthew 18:1-14 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he […]