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Recently I have been having a lot of conversations about guilt – my own and other peoples’. Much of the time, I find that we wrap guilt and shame up in the same basket. The dictionary definition of guilt is “the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime.” Guilt is a…
I don’t know about anyone else, but I confess, I’m not very good at praying. It seems that all Christian leaders encourage prayer. I’ve heard a lot of them say how we should not just pray, but pray with confidence, informally, as a child talking to their father. Some even say that we should claim…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING April 17th: The Fourth Week of Easter The Lamb who is the Shepherd. Law: The Bible repeatedly describes the people of God as needing a…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING MARCH 13: THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT Jesus begins to walk toward Jerusalem. Law: The old ways of relating to God through the temple and…
Pixar just released another trailer for the release of “Finding Dory”, slated to appear in theaters this June. From what you can see, the plot line is basically that all of the sudden Dory, the memory-plagued co-star of “Finding Nemo”, remembers something. And for Dory, remembering something, anything, is a big deal. It causes her to go…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING FEBRUARY 28th: THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT God’s call to repent is both good news and bad, but still it is mostly good. Law: It is…
Lectionary reflection for the OT reading, 2nd week of Lent, Jeremiah 26:8-15 The crowd was gathered. An innocent man stood, accused of blasphemy. They cried out for his death. . . While this sounds like the scene outside of Pilate’s headquarters when the crowds cried out “Crucify Him!” and “give us Barabbas!”, it happened hundreds…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING February 21st: The Second Week of Lent God’s prophetic Word tends to get prophets into hot water. Law: Because we live in a sinful world,…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING February 14th: The First Week of Lent Christians worship. It is almost so elemental to being a Christian that the idea of worship can get…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THIS SEASON AND SERIES: EPIPHANY – “CHRISTOLOGY” The season of the Sundays after the Epiphany are sometimes called “Ordinary Time”. This is not because they are without special…