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Bread for the Journey, Tuesday in the Seventeenth Week after Pentecost

On: September 29, 2020

Tagged: dignity, faith, faith of friends, friendship, healing, Jesus the healer, on earth as it is in heaven, salvation

From the Daily Lectionary for Tuesday in the Seventeenth Week after Pentecost Luke 5:12-26 Once, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you choose, you canRead More →

Bread for the Journey, Monday in the Seventeenth Week after Pentecost

On: September 29, 2020

Tagged: birds of the air, election year, lilies of the field, pandemic, pandemonium, racism, worry

From the Daily Lectionary for Monday in the Seventeenth Week after Pentecost Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the bodyRead More →

Bread for the Journey, Friday and Saturday in the Sixteenth Week after Pentecost

On: September 25, 2020

Tagged: dignity, galilee, healing, Jesus the healer, justice, truth

From the Daily Lectionary for Friday/Saturday in the Sixteenth Week after Pentecost Luke 4:31-44 He went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. They were astounded at his teaching, because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man who had the spiritRead More →

Bread for the Journey, Thursday in the Sixteenth Week after Pentecost

On: September 24, 2020

Tagged: holy spirit, Isaiah, jesus, justice, nazareth, prophets

From the Daily Lectionary for Thursday in the Sixteenth Week after Pentecost Luke 4:14-30 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When heRead More →

Of Little Things

On: September 23, 2020

Tagged: care for the least, disenfranchised, football metaphors, persistence, perspective, poor, pray without ceasing, prisoners, privilege, sick, vote

Please pardon the football metaphor, but when things went awry with Alabama Football under the legendary coach “Bear” Bryant, he would say, “We’ve got to get back to ‘blocking and tackling’”…in other words, mind the little things. In our country and in our world right now, everything seems macrocosmic; ourRead More →

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