We remember because it reminds us of an enduring quality of God – that God is devoted to us, and in return wants our worship, our love and our time.
This is the Lord’s Doing!
By Annika Miller, a senior elementary education major from Broadway, Va. THIS WEEK’S THEME: This is the Lord’s Doing! THIS WEEK’S SCRIPTURES: Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14; Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19; John 13:1-17, 31b-35; Acts 10:34-43; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; Luke 24:1-12 DEVOTIONAL: When I was in junior high, my family took a four-week summer vacation, driving from … Keep reading »
The Christ hymn
The lilting nature of this hymn speaks to my poetic sensibilities. Memorizing this passage was natural and in these days and weeks of Lent I recover this passage each day as a reminder of my faith.
A patient teacher
Praise to the God who teaches us patiently.
Love can appear out of nowhere
Often life seems normal and ordinary, and suddenly love appears out of nowhere.
God is often unexpectedly good
Just as Jesus was shunned by the masses yet rose again and lives as our Cornerstone, I pray that those on the margins will be received by their oppressors as the cornerstone and help us all to rise again with a new love, new life and new understanding of what it means to do God’s work and live into God’s Beloved Community.
The Blessed One Comes in the Name of the Lord
Regardless of where this week takes you, may you be blessed as you come in the name of the Lord: fully human, needing one another.
Re-imagining extravagance
These too are examples of a different kind of extravagance, one that I believe brings us closer to God.
Boasting of a righteous heritage
In today’s Scripture, Paul boasts about his righteous heritage. In a twist of irony, Paul’s “boast” clearly becomes a confession – an honest assessment of owning up to past wrongs as a persecutor of the church.
In need of restoration
In those times when you’re burnt out and it seems like there’s no way to revive your desire to keep moving forward, may God restore you.
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