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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 →

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

On: September 22, 2020

Tagged: baptism of Jesus, gospel of Luke, Israel, John the Baptist, love, prophecy, transforming grace

From the Daily Lectionary for Tuesday in the Sixteenth Week after Pentecost Luke 3:15-22As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who isRead More →

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

On: September 21, 2020

Tagged: empire, gospel of Luke, Isaiah, John the Baptist, opposition

From the Daily Lectionary for Monday in the Sixteenth Week after Pentecost Luke 3:1-14 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler ofRead More →

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

On: September 15, 2020

Tagged: Book of Job, Covenant, mystery, suffering

From the Daily Lectionary for Tuesday in the Fifteenth Week after Pentecost Job 40:1-24; 41:1-11 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:“Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may beRead More →

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

On: September 11, 2020

From the Daily Lectionary for Friday/Saturday September 11-12, Proper 18 Acts 15:12-35 The whole assembly kept silence, and listened to Barnabas and Paul as they told of all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished, James replied, “My brothers, listen toRead More →

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