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 7PM.

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, exhausting,...

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...

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 12:26Oh...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 discussion...

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’...

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...

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,...

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 and...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Repent, Reflect, Reconcile, Repeat April 5, 2025 Jeremiah 11:18-20 | John 7:37-52 | Psalm 7:6-11Today’s collect reminds us to consult our conscience so that we may identify, repent, and be absolved of our sins. Our sins form a barrier that...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Follow the Leader April 4, 2025 Wisdom 2:1a, 12-24 | John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30| Psalm 34:15-22In Wisdom 2:1a, 12-24, it is said, “God created us for incorruption, and made us in the image of his own eternity.” In these words, there is validation...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 With Free Hearts April 3, 2025 Exodus 32: 7-14 | John 5:30-47 | Psalm 106:6-7, 19-21“Almighty and most merciful God, drive from us all weakness of body, mind, and spirit; that, being restored to wholeness, we may with free hearts become what...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Son of Man: The Morning After... April 2, 2025 Isaiah 49:8-15 | John 5:19-29 | Psalm 145:8-19John 5: 27 “… he [God the Father] has given him [Jesus Christ, God the Son] authority to execute judgement, because he is the Son of Man.”“Son of...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Healing WaterApril 1, 2025 Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 | John 5:1-18 | Psalm 46:1-8The scripture readings for today are all about water. As an open-water swimmer, I am always moved by water imagery. The life-giving aspect of water, the power of...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 God is in joy March 31, 2025 Isaiah 65:17-25 | John 4:43-54 |Psalm 30:1-6, 11-13Here we are! We are almost halfway through Lent; if you are like me, your journey is beginning to slog along, losing some of the best intentions we started with....

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 The Return of the Prodigal Son…the next day March 30, 2025 Joshua 5:9-12 | 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 | Luke 15:1-3 11b-32 | Psalm 32Today’s gospel of Luke features the story of the Return of the Prodigal Son.  Like the parable of the Good...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Purple Faith March 29, 2025 Hosea 6:1-6 | Luke 18:9-14 | Psalm 51:15-20At the youth lock-in  we did mad libs sermons. When I got up to read my first adjective was purple so my title became purple faith. It made me think about Lent. Lent is...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Radical Love and Clarity in Today's Tumultuous World March 28, 2025 Hosea 14:1-9| Mark 12:28-34 | Psalm 81:8-14In the midst of turmoil—political unrest, social divisions, injustice, and an overwhelming sense of uncertainty—Lent asks us to...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Facing Down of Injustice March 27, 2025 Jeremiah 7:23-28| Luke 11:14-23 | Psalm 95:6-11In today’s Old Testament reading we hear the prophet Jeremiah delivering God’s stern warning to the Israelites. During their years in the wilderness some...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 The Faith He Left Behind March 26, 2025 Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 5-9| Matthew 5:17-19| Psalm 78:1-6When I first read today’s lessons, I honestly had no idea what to write. For weeks I pondered on the words, with nothing jumping out at me or...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Will you say yes to God anyway? March 25, 2025 Isaiah 7:10-14 | Hebrews 10:4-10 | Luke 1:26-38 | Canticle 15There is no woman in the Gospel who plays a bigger role in the story of Jesus than his mother. Today’s Gospel tells us of the visit...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Ordinary voicesMarch 24, 2025 2 Kings 5:1-15b|Luke 4:23-30 |Psalm 42:1-7In this Old Testament lesson, let’s appreciate for a minute how Naaman’s situation still sounds relevant today.  He’s successful at work, highly regarded by his boss, a...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 HOLDING ON TO OUR FAITHMarch 23, 2025 Exodus 3:1-15 | 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 | Luke 13:1-9 | Psalm 63:1-8Exodus 3:1-15We are living in difficult times now, similarly to how the Israelites were living in difficult times in Egypt under the...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Pardon and Peace March 22, 2025 Micah 7:14-15 | Luke 15:11-32| Psalm 103:1-12Collect: Grant, most merciful Lord, to your faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve you with a quiet mind.I love...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 The Parable of the TenantsMarch 21, 2025 Genesis 37:3-4,12-28 | Matthew 21:33-43 | Psalm 105:16-22Today’s Gospel, Matthew 21:33-43, is a fascinating parable and captured my attention when I looked at the readings for my blog this year....

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 TRUST GOD and BE ‘LOVED INTO CLARITY,’ one degree at a time.March 20, 2025 Jeremiah 17:5-10 | Luke 16:19-31 | Psalm 1I love our St Luke’s Lenten theme for this year, “Loved into Clarity.” What a good chance to feel how loved we are by God....

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 It’s OK to be second fiddle. Or even third. March 19, 2025 2 Samuel 7:4, 8-16 | Romans 4:13-18 | Luke 2:4-52 | Psalm 89:1-29From as early as I can remember, say the mid-1960s (grade school years), March was about bike riding again and...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Do As I Say, Not As I Do. March 18, 2025 Isaiah 1:2-4, 16-20 |  Matthew 23:1-12 | Psalm 50:7-15,22-24Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Love your enemyMarch 17, 2025 Daniel 9:3-10 | Luke 6:27-38 | Psalm 79:1-9Luke 6:27 – 28: Jesus said, “I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.”I...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Citizens of HeavenMarch 16, 2025 Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 | Philippians 3:17-4:1 |Luke 13:31-35 | Psalm 27"But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ."Citizenship. This word...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Pray, Reflect, Repent, Prepare, LoveMarch 15, 2025 Deuteronomy 26:16–19  |  Matthew 5:43–48  |  Psalm 119:1–8O God, by your Word you marvelously carry out the work of reconciliation. So begins today’s collect. But what exactly does that...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Take Me HomeMarch 14, 2025 Ezekiel 18:21-28 |  Matt 5:20-26 |  Psalm 130Psalm 130 begins with, “Out of the depths I have called to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice; let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication.” This quote...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 A Venture into the Apocrypha March 13, 2025 Esther 14:1-6, 12-14 | Matt 7:7-12 | Psalm 138Quite a few years ago I became curious about the Apocrypha.  The word refers to writings of doubtful authenticity.  So, I read it all from Esdras to...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Love Thy NeighborMarch 12, 2025 Jonah 3:1-10 | Luke 11:29-32 | Psalm 51:11-18It’s hard not to think of whales as soon as you see Jonah’s name, even though today’s lesson doesn’t include that story. The dramatic imagery of a man being...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 The Lord’s Prayer March 11, 2025 Isaiah 55:6-11 | Matt 6:7-15 | Psalm 34:15-22Today’s readings are among the most beloved in the Bible, including the Lord’s Prayer, probably the best known of all scripture. Today gives the opportunity to...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Holy Discipline March 10, 2025 Leviticus 19:1-2, 2:1-18 | Matt 25:31-46 | Psalm 19:14Today’s first reading, the Collect (sort of our first solo step into Lent), grabbed me:Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully increase on us your gifts of...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 The Honey Drink March 9, 2025 Deutoronomy 26:1-11 |Romans 10:8b-13 | Luke 4:1-13 |Psalm 91:1-2,9-16The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders;...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 It is not all about the premiums…March 8, 2025 Isaiah 58:9b-14 | Luke 5:27-32  | Psalm 86:1-11Faith is a person-centered process that is experienced differently by all.  I, like many of us, look at the rewards before going back to the task...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 Calling All SinnersMarch 7, 2025 Isaiah 58:1-9a  Matt 9:10-17  Psalm 51:1-10As Jesus sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 ChoicesMarch 6, 2025 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 |  Luke 9:18-20 |  Psalm 1When I begin my Lenten journey I always ask, “What should I be focusing on?” Lent being a time of self-reflection, I wonder if the “self-reflection” becomes my focus and God...

Home > Lenten Blog 2025 An Acceptable Fast March 5, 2025 Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 | Isaiah 58:1-12 |  2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 | Matt 6:1-6, 16-21 |  Psalm 103“Hey, you’ve got something on your forehead.” Yes, today’s that day. The day when we’re reminded that we are...