This week’s post is an answer to several questions I received recently about fasting. What is it? How do I go about it? What is the goal? What are the results? Let me start with what fasting is. As Richard Foster puts it in his book Celebration of Discipline, fasting, in the Biblical context, is… Read More The Devotional Life Series – Fasting
The lectionary texts are for Pentecost which is the day that the Spirit of Christ was given to the followers of Christ. The results were dramatic and eternal. When you send forth your spirit, they are created; Psalm 104:30 NRSV Our psalm this week acknowledges God’s creative power upon all of creation including humanity. Made… Read More Pentecost Week Devotional: The One Who Creates
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit: through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with… Read More An Easter Prayer
18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20 who in former times did not… Read More Holy Saturday
God asked Adam and Eve, “Where are you?” God asked Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” Jesus twice asks the arresting mob in the garden, “Whom are you looking for?” Is forgiveness soft? Is forgiving someone taking the easy way out and not addressing the issue or holding someone accountable? You are probably on to… Read More Good Friday
John 13:1–20 (NRSV) 13 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas… Read More Maundy Thursday
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