Easter Sunday has come and gone but Easter is not over ….. Right It’s not over if we pay any attention to the church calendar which calls the 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost “Eastertide,” or the “Season of Easter,” or … Continue reading
Where do you find yourself this week? Palm Sunday has passed; we are moving through Holy Week, on to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and then …. Easter. I need to remember a few things today and I want to share those … Continue reading
The days of Lent have moved on and in a few more days we will come to Palm Sunday. At some churches people will hear of Jesus’ “Triumphal Entry” into Jerusalem, and may see a few Palm branches, and some … Continue reading
A few days ago I was reading the lectionary readings for this Sunday and the passage from Philippians 3:4-14 struck me with particular force. What hit me so hard was, If anyone else has reason to be confident in the … Continue reading
Did you make room during these past days for the Lenten Prayer we shared last week? How did it go? I have to confess that I did not make time everyday to pray it but I did on several days … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I mentioned a couple of lenten devotionals that seemed to point toward finding balance in our lives. Several years ago I came across a lenten prayer that addresses in its own way some aspects of our … Continue reading
This past Monday as I looked over the many lenten readings in my email (maybe too many, but that is a discussion for another day) one especially caught my attention, “Forced Spirituality.” The writer begins with an account of a … Continue reading
A few days ago I saw on the High Calling website information about a Lenten devotional booklet ( http://www.thehighcalling.org/lent ) that can be downloaded or followed online. In the booklet Mark Roberts describes some of the things he finds Lent is and isn’t: … Continue reading
What do you see right now? At home, at work, in the car, in the shopping center, at the gym, walking, running, at the park, What do you see? One of the themes in Scripture that keeps bothering me is the reoccurring note … Continue reading
With Lent arriving in two weeks I see more and more “advertisements” for ways to spend some of your time during Lent. Publishers and book-sellers offer suggestions, well known (and lesser known) religious/spiritual writers offer suggestions, and churches/denominations/organizations direct you to resources (often ones they … Continue reading
