Psalm 111, Luke 17:11-19 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ There are many challenges for us in life; I’ve faced some real doozies. Early on, the hardest challenge for me was honesty; my wife’s aunt described another of Cathy’s family as “allergic Read more
Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4, 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Habakkuk gives us a discouraging image of his world. You get the same feeling by reading the Gospel from Luke for today (though for different reasons) and from our reading Read more
Daniel 10:10-14; 12:1-3, Revelation 12:7–12 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ I’m not a big fan of the popular understanding of angels. I think often people use angels as a kind of a crutch. Still angels are in Scripture; they are real. Read more
Luke 16:1-13, 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Personally, I don’t want to make friends by means of dishonest wealth, no matter what Jesus said. Though I have to admit, I’m not exactly sure what that would be and Read more
Exodus 32:7-14, Luke 15:1-10 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ All of our readings today speak of sin, a breakdown of the relationship between God and humanity, they also speak of God’s anger and God’s mercy and the distance that God, that Read more
Philemon 1-21 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ In the song “Alice’s Restaurant” sung by Arlo Guthrie, a song about the draft, he tells the story of being arrested for dumping a load of trash off the side of the road and Read more
Psalm 112, Luke 14:1, 7-14 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ If you were to ask me to describe, how we must live so that we are right with God, I have to admit I would stumble-about for the best answer. Scripture Read more
Isaiah 58:9b-14, Luke 13:10-17 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ So many of our thoughts are centered on the possible consequences of our actions; inside we (most of us) believe that all that we do, in some way, will either benefit or Read more
Luke 12:49-56 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ When we think of Jesus, we think of him as our Savior and as the one who earned for us, our forgiveness; when we talk about Jesus, we talk about the love that he Read more
Genesis 18:20-32, Luke 11:1-13 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ It seems that prayer is again the focus of our readings for this week. In our Psalm we have the appeal of King David for the Lord’s continual protection and David’s words Read more