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...

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...

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 seems...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...