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...