Apr 5, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Easter Weeping and Hope April 5, 2026 Acts 10:34-43 | 1 Corinthians 25:6-9 | John 20:1-18 | Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24John 20:1-18On the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb carrying grief that had not...
Apr 4, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Holy Saturday April 4, 2026 Job 14:1-14 or Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24 | 1 Peter 4:1-8 | Matthew 27:57-66 or John 19:38-42 | Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16In te, Domine, speravi1 In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge;let me never...
Apr 3, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Good Friday Taizé Service Please enjoy this recording from last year’s Good Friday Taizé Service.We welcome you to join us for tonight’s Taizé Service starting at...
Apr 2, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 What else do YOU see?April 2, 2026 Exodus 12:1-14 | 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 | John 13:1-17, 31b-35 | Psalm 116:1, 10-17 This year, as I prepared for this blog entry for Maundy Thursday, I was struck by the fact that we repeat this exact...
Apr 1, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 An Altar Boy and the Mystery of Faith April 1, 2026 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Hebrews 12:1-3 | John 13:21-32 | Psalm 70As an 8-year-old altar boy at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church in Narragansett, I found our pastor, Father Hughes, mesmerizing....
Mar 31, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Amigos: The glory of these forty days… Lenten hymn 143 March 31, 2026 John 12:20-36 Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him,...
Mar 30, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 “The Fragrance of Jesus’ Love” March 30, 2026 Isaiah 42:1-9 | Hebrews 9:11-15 | John 12:1-11 | Psalm 36:5-11Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled...
Mar 29, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Whisper hosanna.March 29, 2026 Matthew 21:1-11|Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29|Isaiah 50:4-9a|PhilippiNA 2:5-11|Matthew 27:11-54|Psalm 31:9-16The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is...
Mar 28, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 With Mercy Comes Salvation March 28, 2026 Ezekiel 37:21-28 | John 11:45-53 | Psalm 85:1-7As I pour over the readings for today, I spot an obvious theme – we are being reminded of Jesus’ part in God’s great plan, the role of the Messiah and...
Mar 27, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Amigos: O Lord hear my pray’r / Peace March 27, 2026 Psalm 18:1–7 Diligam te, Domine. 1 I love you, O Lord my strength,O Lord my stronghold, my crag, and my haven. 2 My God, my rock in whom I put my trust, my shield, the horn of my...
Mar 26, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Save the last blog for me. March 26, 2026 Genesis 17:1-8 | John 8:51-59 | Psalm 105:4-11Just yesterday, I found myself staring at Betsy’s Lenten Blog spreadsheet to discover one Lenten Blog date without a writer. I suggested to Betsy I might...
Mar 25, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 A Singers’ Brain on The Song of MaryMarch 25, 2026 Isaiah 7:10-14|Psalm 45|Psalm 40:5-10|Canticle15|Hebrews 10:4-10|Luke 1:26-38Canticle 15. The Song of Mary. Also known in the Episcopal tradition as the Magnificat, it is a magical mixture...
Mar 24, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 THE LENS OF CHARITYMarch 24, 2026 Numbers 21:4-9|John 8:21-30|Psalm 102:15-22Psalm 102:15–2216 For the Lord will build up Zion, *and his glory will appear.17 He will look with favor on the prayer of the homeless; *he will not despise their...
Mar 23, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Can you hear it? March 23, 2026 Susanna 1-9, 15-29, 34-40, 41-62 | John 8:1-11 | Pslm 23We are coming to the end of our Lenten journey. Daily we have experienced a deeper conversation with God. Our scriptures for today revolve around the...
Mar 22, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 So That We Shall Believe March 22, 2026 Ezekiel 37:1-14|Romans 8:6-11|John 11:1-45|Psalm 130“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” I find it difficult to read Martha without projecting a little of my own sass-and the...
Mar 21, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Standing in the Need of Prayer March 21, 2026 Jeremiah 11:18-20 | John 7:37-52 | Psalm 7:6-11It’s me, it’s me, it’s me, O Lord –Standing in the need of prayer –It’s me, it’s me, it’s me, O Lord –Standing in the need of prayer –This old...
Mar 20, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Righteousness, Satan, Death and ResurrectionMarch 20, 2026 Wisdom 2:1a, 12-24 | John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30| Psalm 34:15-22“Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, and they did not know the secret purposes...
Mar 19, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Joseph, Guardian of our LordMarch 19, 2026 2 Samuel 7:4, 8-16|Romans 4:13-18|Luke 2:41-52O God, who from the family of your servant David raised up Joseph to be the guardian of your incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin mother: Give us...
Mar 18, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 An Introduction and a PromiseMarch 18, 2026 Isaiah 49:8-15 | John 5:19-29 | Psalm 145:8-19There are times, when asked to write these blogs, that I must go pick up my Bible and expand the reading a little. In today’s reading from John, Jesus...
Mar 17, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 ABSENCEMarch 17, 2026 Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 | John 5:1-18 | Psalm 46:1-87 The nations make much ado, and the kingdoms are shaken; God has spoken, and the earth shall melt away.8 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our...
Mar 16, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Faith Journeys Into Relationship with God March 16, 2026 Isaiah 65:17-25 | John 4:43-54 |Psalm 30:1-6, 11-13Today’s reading is all about faith formation, a journey that is at times richly fulfilling and at other times frustrating. Jesus...
Mar 15, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Nice Work, When You Can Get It. March 15, 2026 1 Samuel 16:1-13 | Ephesians 5:8-14 | John 9:1-41 | Psalm 23Today’s lectionary reechoes a theme: God providing mortals with vision, and the revealing of God’s work. The Lord gives Samuel...
Mar 14, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Will you be a Pharisee or a Tax collector? March 14, 2026 Hosea 6:1-6 | Luke 18:9-14 | Psalm 51:15-20Luke 18:9–14He [Jesus] told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt:...
Mar 13, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 No one dared to ask him any question.March 13, 2026 Hosea 14:1-9| Mark 12:28-34 | Psalm 81:8-14In today’s reading from Mark, we find religious scholars once again challenging Jesus. A scribe asks, “Which commandment is the first of all?”...
Mar 12, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Keeping watch March 12, 2026 Jeremiah 7:23-28| Luke 11:14-23 | Psalm 95:6-11Keep watch over your Church, O Lord, with your unfailing love; and, since it is grounded in human weakness and cannot maintain itself without your aid, protect it...
Mar 11, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Let’s celebrate our similarities March 11, 2026 Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 5-9| Matthew 5:17-19| Psalm 78:1-6Ah, Lent, the season perched at the long end of winter. We’ve passed the bright lights and joyful celebrations of Advent, Christmas,...
Mar 10, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Merciful God March 10, 2026 Song of Three Young Men 2-4, 11-20a| Matthew 18: 21-35|Psalm 25:3-10The majority of humans living in my household are 5 years of age or under. As the older, negligibly wiser human in the room, I have tried to...
Mar 9, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Take Time to Walk with Your Soul and Know God March 9, 2026 2 Kings 5:1-15b|Luke 4:23-30 |Psalm 42:1-7Four parts of Psalm 42, from today’s readings, spoke deeply to me. They helped me, along with some research, to be able to put together a...
Mar 8, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 God wants to Hear your Blessings and your Burdens March 8, 2026 Exodus 17:1-7| Romans 5:1-11| John 4:5-42| Psalm 95Exodus 17:1-7From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the LORD commanded....
Mar 7, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Fathers and Forgiveness March 7, 2026 Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son, Hermitage Museum, St. PetersburgMicah 7:14-15 | Luke 15:11-32| Psalm 103:1-12Micah asks the question “Who is a God like you?” Our God is compassionate and...
Mar 6, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Dreamers, Pits, and Choosing Love (Featuring Donny Osmond) March 6, 2026 Genesis 37:3-4, 12-28|Matt 21:33-43|Psalm 105:16-22In the midst of uncertainty, Lent asks us to pause, reflect, and seek clarity. Not clarity that simplifies the world...
Mar 5, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Lazarus and the Rich ManMarch 5, 2026 Jeremiah 17:5-10|Luke 16:19-31|Psalm 1Who am I more like—the rich man who feasts sumptuously every day or Lazarus, who has to beg for crumbs from the rich man’s table and is covered in sores? If I am...
Mar 4, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Invisible String March 4, 2026 Jeremiah 18:1-11, 18-20 | Matt 20:17-28 | Psalm 31: 9-1614 But as for me, I have trusted in you, O Lord. *I have said, “You are my God. 15 My times are in your hand; *rescue me from the hand of my...
Mar 3, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 “Things that Matter”March 3, 2026 “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Isaiah 1:2-4, 16-20 Matt 23:1-12 Psalm 50:7-15,22-24Matthew 23:1–12Jesus said to the...
Mar 2, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 God’s love is transformational March 2, 2026 Daniel 9:3-10| Luke 6:27-38| Psalm 79:1-9I had some difficulty using the first few readings for today as inspiration for reflection*. However, upon reading Luke’s gospel I realized that my vision...
Mar 1, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Go with God March 1, 2026 Genesis 12:1-4a|Romans4:1-5, 13-17|John 31-17| Psalm 121Occasionally I’ve sat down to write one of these blogs and have struggled a bit to find a hook. This is not one of those times! The thread running through all...
Feb 28, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Obedience February 28, 2026 Deuteronomy 26:16-19| Matthew 5:43-48 | Psalm 119:1-8Today you have obtained the Lord’s agreement: to be your God; and for you to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and...
Feb 27, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Promises! February 27, 2026 Ecclesiastes 4:13–5:7|Psalm 23|2 Corinthians 4:16-18|Mark 9:2–8George Herbert, Priest and Poet, 1633What is a promise? It is “a declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that a particular...
Feb 26, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Strengthen Us February 26, 2026 Esther 14:1-6, 12-14| Matt 7:7-12| Psalm 138Collect:Strengthen us, O Lord, by your grace, that in your might we may overcome all spiritual enemies, and with pure hearts serve you; through Jesus Christ our...
Feb 25, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 NinevehFebruary 25, 2026 Jonah 3:1-10| Luke 11:29-32| Psalm 51:11-18I have always enjoyed writing, and these blogs have always given me a chance to formalize thoughts into a concrete statement. They push me into a review of my faith, the...
Feb 24, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Matthias the Faithful February 24, 2026 Acts 1:15-26|Philippians 3:13-21|John 15:1, 6-16|Psalm 15The call of Saint Matthias occurred between Our Lord’s Ascension and Pentecost in response to a practical concern: the need to replace Judas the...
Feb 23, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Learning to Love Myself as God Loves Me February 23, 2026 Leviticus 19:1-2, 2:1-18| Matt 25:31-46|Psalm 19:7-14“You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall...
Feb 22, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Does Beelzebub have a devil put aside for me? February 22, 2026 Luzifer verführt Adam und Eva engraving by Gustav Dore 1866Genesis:15-17, 3:1-7| Romans 5:12-19|Matthew 4:1-11|Psalm 32I feel conflicted. What am I supposed to make of this...
Feb 21, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 The Yoke February 21, 2026 Isaiah 58:9b-14| Luke 5:27-32|Psalm 86:1-11Isaiah’s Old Testament words for today first confused but then fascinated me:If you remove the yoke from among you,the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,if you...
Feb 20, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Our Sin-Sick SoulsFebruary 20, 2026 Isaiah 58:1-9a|Matthew 9:10-17|Psalm 51:1-10There is a Balm in GileadTo make the wounded whole –There is a Balm in GileadTo heal the sin-sick soul.“Wellness” is a term we hear often these days. While the...
Feb 19, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 All About Love February 19, 2026 Deuteronomy 30:15-20|Psalm 1|Luke 9:18-25Having just come through our journey receiving the light of Christ to bring love and joy in a world that seems so dark, here we are again at the beginning of another...
Feb 18, 2026 | Lenten Blog 2026
Home > Lenten Blog 2026 Be the Love the World Needs NowFebruary 18, 2026 Joel 2:1-2, 12-17| Isaiah 58:1-12| 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 |Matt 6:1-6, 16-21| Psalm 103 Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, the ancient season of penitence and fasting that...
Jan 6, 2026 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Looking Back as I Step Forward January 6, 2026 Isaiah 60:1-6|Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14|Ephesians 3:1-12|Matthew 2:1-12 As I have grown older, I have begun to realize that conflict is something particularly unavoidable in life. I have found...
Jan 5, 2026 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Epiphany Eve January 5, 2026 Proverbs 9:1-6|Psalm 119:65-72|James :1-10|Mark 12:18-27 Epiphany comes from the word epiphaneia, meaning to reveal. Epiphany Eve has us waiting in the darkness for the revelation of the fullness of...
Jan 4, 2026 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Thoughts on Home January 4, 2026 Jeremiah 31:7-14|Psalm 84|Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a|Matt 2:13-15, 19-23 or Luke 2:41-52 or Matt 2:1-12 The sparrow has found her a house And the swallow a nest where she may lay her young;* By the side...
Jan 3, 2026 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Marching Orders January 3, 2026 Psalm 72| 1 Kings 19:9-18 | Ephesians 4:17-32 | John 6:15-27 “It is I; do not be afraid” … Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of...
Jan 2, 2026 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Gifts from God January 2, 2026 Psalm 33 | 1 Kings 19:1-8 | Ephesians 4:1-16 | John 6:1-14 Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus is filled with words of encouragement and instruction. I have been given a small part of that to...
Jan 1, 2026 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 At the Name of Jesus… January 1, 2026 Numbers 6:22-27 | Psalm 8 | Galatians 4:4-7 or Philippians 2:5-11|Luke 2:15-21 As I read the scriptures for this day, I kept coming back to the question “what does the name of Jesus mean to me?”...
Dec 31, 2025 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Love Wins December 31, 2025 Lamentations 3:26-36 | Psalm 146 | Acts 16:25-34 | Luke 4:14-21 The Gospel appointed for December 31st brings us into the synagogue at Nazareth, where Jesus unrolls the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and...
Dec 30, 2025 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 The Incredible Faith of a Young Couple December 30, 2025 Jeremiah 31:15-17 | Psalm 124 |Revelation 21:1-7 | Matthew 2:13-18 The First Sunday after Christmas, the Feast of the Holy Family, is an important celebration in the Christian...
Dec 29, 2025 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 It’s All About Love December 29, 2025 Wisdom 6:1-8 | Psalm 5:1-7 | Romans 5:1-11 | Luke 4:1-13 “Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person– though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. But God...
Dec 28, 2025 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Children of God – Clothed in Christ December 28, 2025 Isaiah 61:10-62, 3 | Psalm 147 | Galatians 3:23-25, 4:4-7 | John 1:1-18 The Collect: Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this...
Dec 27, 2025 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 Step Into The Light December 27, 2025 Exodus 33:8-23 | Psalm 92 |1 John 1:1-9 | John 21:19b-24 This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. One of the...
Dec 26, 2025 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 You heard the sound of my entreaty… December 26, 2025 Jeremiah 26:1-9, 12-15 | Psalm 31 | Acts 6:8, 7:2a, 5c-60 | Matthew 23:34-39 A call to action—or the failure to act in the face of urgent pleas—threads through today’s...
Dec 25, 2025 | Christmas Blog 2025-2026
Home > Christmas Blog 2025-2026 The Chorus of Trees December 25, 2025 Isaiah 9:2-7| Psalm 96| Titus 2:11-14|Luke 2:1-14 (15-20) “Around me the trees stir in their leavesAnd call out, ‘Stay awhile.’The light flows from their branches.” The selection from Mary...
Dec 24, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 From Fear to Praise December 24, 2025 Isaiah 9:2-7/ Psalm 96/ Titus 2:11-14/ Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God…” (Luke 2:13)Luke tells us that on the night of Jesus’...
Dec 23, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 An Ornament to the Doctrine of GodDecember 23, 2025 1 Samuel 2:1b-10|Psalm 66, 67|Titus 2:1-10|Luke 1:26-38Today’s readings strike a tone of praise and awe. I find that pretty easy to do when I’m hiking in the woods. With new fallen snow...
Dec 22, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Growing in faith December 22, 2025 Habukkuk 2:1-4|Psalm 126/ Hebrews 10:35- 11:1|John 20:24-29Today is the feast day of St. Thomas the Apostle. In today’s Gospel reading, we learn about how Thomas initially refused to believe the other...
Dec 21, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Family Goes Beyond Biology December 21, 2025 Isaiah 7:10-16|Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18|Romans 1:1-7|Matthew 1:18-25Matthew 1:18-25 18–Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but...
Dec 20, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Waiting For The Light Of Christ December 20, 2025 Isaiah 55:6-11/ Psalm 46/ Romans 3:21-28/ John 15:1-11The phrase from today’s reading, “…Come now and look upon the works of the Lord…” brings to my mind this season of...
Dec 19, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Gifts from God December 19, 2025 Zechariah 7:8-8:8|Psalm 40| Revelation 5:6-14| Matthew 25:14-30We receive gifts, resources, and opportunities from God and need to use them to honor God’s purposes.In this Parable of the Talents, the master...
Dec 18, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 For you know neither the day nor the hour December 18, 2025 Zechariah 4-1-14| Psalm 50| Revelation 4:9-5:5| Matthew 25:1-13Revelations 4:9-5:5You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things,...
Dec 17, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Surrounded by Gifts December 17, 2025 Judges 3:15-30|Psalm 19|1 Corinthians 12:4-11|John 21:1-9Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of...
Dec 16, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Keep Awake. Be Aware.December 16, 2025 Zechariah 2:1-13 | Psalm 45|3:14-22 |Matthew 24:32-44Advent is a time when I deliberately try to slow down and practice an attentiveness that escapes me much of the year. With intention and patience, I...
Dec 15, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Nino of Georgia December 15, 2025 2 Kings 5:1-14|Psalm 17:6-10|Philippians 1:12-18|Luke 13:10-17The people of the country of Georgia (located, then and now, at the southeastern end of the Black Sea) were Christianized during the fourth...
Dec 14, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 A Call to Patience and Inner Peace December 14, 2025 Isaiah 35:1-10|Psalm 146:4-9 or Canticle 3 or 15| James 5:7-10|Matthew 11:2-11Advent is a season of wonder and mystery that deeply touches our souls. We must patiently wait for Jesus’...
Dec 13, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 I’m a child of GodDecember 13, 2025 Esther 4:9-16/ Psalm 131/ Revelation 19:5-8/ John 1:9-14John1:9-14 is specifically talking about Jesus as the true light and the Word. The beginning of John 1 talks about the Holy Trinity, a difficult...
Dec 12, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 My times are in your hands December 12, 2025 Haggai 1:1-15 |Psalm 31| Revelation 2:18-29 |Matthew 23:27-39My dearest friend Lisa Johnson loved the poem “Footprints,” and frequently gave me gifts that had that poem on it. The poem is a...
Dec 11, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 The Good Shepherd December 11, 2025 Jeremiah 17:14-17|Psalm 18:1-6, 18-20| 1 Corinthians 15:12-22| John 10:11-18In today’s Gospel reading from John, Jesus states “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15just as the Father...
Dec 10, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 PeaceDecember 10, 2025 Amos 8:1-14|Psalm 38|Revelation 1:17–2:7|Matthew 23:1-12The resonant words of Psalm 38:10, describing a heart in turmoil and strength faltering, often echo deeply within us, particularly when the world around us...
Dec 9, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Communication is a choiceDecember 9, 2025 Amos 7:1-10| Psalm 26|Revelation 1:9-16|Matthew 22:34-46“…and his face was like the sun shining with full force.”The readings today have such a richness of language it got me thinking about...
Dec 8, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Wisdom, Waiting, and the Work of AdventDecember 8, 2025 Proverbs 1:20-33|Psalm 127|Galatians 6:7-10|Matthew 13:47-52My team at work often teases me because I am constantly asking the same question of them and myself. I even have a sign with...
Dec 7, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Thinking about Prophets – True or FalseDecember 7, 2025 Isaiah 11:1-10|Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19|Romans 15:4-13|Matthew 3:1-1A voice of one calling:“In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord;make straight in the desert a highway for our...
Dec 6, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Who is more gracious than a child?December 6, 2025 1 Kings 17:7-16|Psalm 145:8-13| 1 John 4:7-14| Mark 10:13-16Today’s readings have an obvious theme: Generosity.Appropriate, as we celebrate the feast day of a certain Bishop of Myra, called...
Dec 5, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Pursuing Peace Here and Now?!December 5, 2025 Photo by Noel Bailey Robinson1 Samuel 12:20-25|Psalm 34:9-14| Colossians 1:11-20|John 6:57-63“Turn from evil and do good.” Psalm 34 prosaically advises us today. But its final line grabs my...
Dec 4, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 ”The Kingdom of God is Among You“December 4, 2025 Photo: Picture of a presentation by Paolo del Vecchio, MSW (Crisis Con, 2025Wisdom 16:20-26| Psalm 118:14-21| Romans 6:1-11| Luke 17:20-21Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the...
Dec 3, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 I Have Become All Things To All PeopleDecember 3, 2025 Ecclesiasticus 2:1-7| Psalm 62| 1 Corinthians 9:16-23| Mark 16:15-20Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians, says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save...
Dec 2, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 A New Song December 2, 2025 Isaiah 49:22-23|Psalm 96:1-7| Acts 1:1-9| Luke 10:1-12Sing to the Lord a new song; *sing to the Lord, all the whole earth. – Psalm 96:1-2What an exuberant exhortation! Imagine the Psalmist spreading his arms in...
Dec 1, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 Hear and Come December 1, 2025 Deuteronomy 30:11-14|Psalm 19| Romans 10:8b-18| Matthew 4:18-22It’s Advent! Come and journey from the dark to the glory of Christ’s birth, bringing light into the world. It never ceases to amaze me that the...
Nov 30, 2025 | Advent Blog 2025
Home > Advent Blog 2025 How long, oh, Lord, how long do we have to wait? November 30, 2025 Isaiah 2:1-5|Psalm 122|Romans 13:11-14|Matthew 24:36-44In the Gospel lesson for today from Matthew 24:36-44, we read the words “about that day and hour no one knows” and...
Apr 20, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 He is risen. Hallelujah! April 20, 2025 Can’t make it to the 8AM or 10AM Easter Service today? Join us online by way of our Live Stream Service at...
Apr 19, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Connecting in our Weakness April 19, 2025 Romans 6:3-11|Psalm 114 | Luke 24:1-12For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. Romans 6:3-11When I meet someone and...
Apr 18, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Good Friday Taizé Service 3.29.24 Please enjoy this recording from last year’s Good Friday Taizé Service.We welcome you to join us for tonight’s Taizé Service starting at...
Apr 17, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples.” April 17, 2025 Exodus 12:1-14 | 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 | John 13:1-17, 31b-35 | Psalm 116:1, 10-17It must have been a “heady” journey, traveling with the Messiah: scary,...
Apr 16, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 The Day Before the NightApril 16, 2025 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Hebrews 12:1-3 | John 13:21-32 | Psalm 70On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was living in Florida. Amanda, my oldest, was four years old and attended preschool four mornings a...
Apr 15, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Whoever serves me…April 15, 2025 Isaiah 49:1-7 | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 | John 12:20-36 | Psalm 71:1-14Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also.Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. John...
Apr 14, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Walking in the Way of the CrossApril 14, 2025 Isaiah 42:1-9 | Hebrews 9:11-15 | John 12:1-11 | Psalm 36:5-11Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace. Collect for Monday...
Apr 13, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 How do we see ourselves in the story?April 13, 2025 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Philippians 2:5-11 | Luke 23:1-49Placed in the larger context, we see Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem just after his encounter with Zacchaeus, the tax collector and Roman...
Apr 12, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 The Promise of a NationApril 12, 2025 Ezekiel 37:21-28 | John 11:45-53 | Psalm 85:1-7Both texts from Ezekiel and John are about the formation and wellbeing of a nation. And both are preceded by stories of people being brought back to life....
Apr 11, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Amid the Noise, a Quiet Call to JusticeApril 11, 2025 Jeremiah 20:7–13 | John 10:31–42 | Psalm 18:1–7In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus once again outwits the religious leaders of his time.Provoked by his claim to be the Son of God, they...
Apr 10, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Thinking Our Way to Victory – and Glorifying GodApril 10, 2025 Genesis 17:1-8 | John 8:51-59 | Psalm 105:4-11”Arm us with such trust in him that we may ask no rest from his demands and have no fear in his service.”I was having a...
Apr 9, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Who is our God?April 9, 2025 Daniel 3:14-20, 24-28 | John 8:31-42 | Canticle 2 or 13We are now in the fifth week of Lent. We have prayed; we have fasted; we have sacrificed; we have introspected. Very soon we will be in the depths of Jesus’...
Apr 8, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Learning to ListenApril 8, 2025 2 Samuel 7:4, 8-16 | Romans 4:13-18 | Luke 2:41-52 | Psalm 89:1-29Jesus said to the Jews, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” Then...
Apr 7, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Facing our Fear April 7, 2025 Susanna 1-9, 15-29, 34-40, 41-62 | John 8:1-11 | Psalm 23When I first read through today’s lessons I wondered why the 23rd Psalm was paired with them. Both the Old Testament and the Gospel deal with judgement,...
Apr 6, 2025 | Lenten Blog 2025
Home > Lenten Blog 2025 By Our LoveApril 6, 2025 The Reverend James C. KnudsonIsaiah 43: 16-21 | Philippians 3: 4b-14 | John 12:1-8 | Psalm 126Almighty God, … Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift...
