I found a new (to me) resource for us today! Interestingly enough, this is the same theme that we have explored together before (not Rev. Fox and I but in our groups haha) regarding the Church, a scripture reference from John 12:24 about the seed dying to be reborn. That is where I feel we are but…
Who would have thought!! I was thinking about a conversation I had recently where my 12 year old in reference to a Priest and a Preacher that I was was speaking of, said, “well, they’re holy” at which point I clarified that we are all, in fact, holy. So it got me thinking this morning, if…
Lately I have been concerned with many things happening in our church. I have been in “kitchen table” conversations with many people about where we are heading and how many of us feel not only “off mission” but to some extent as though we aren’t even following the Gospel teachings in some ways. The new missal…
Ephesians 1:18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people. Perhaps this is what the saints all have in common. A “hope” that they felt in thier heart…
http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pentecost-in-two-minutesI hope you enjoy this little journey to Pentecost!
An excellent article that, unfortuantely, it all too familiar to the many women who serve the church. http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/1398705
“Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matt 19: 13-14Tonight my youngest held her first meeting of her…
“There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God with all your strength, with all your…
“Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed, the mute and many others. They placed him at his feet and he cured them.” Matthew 15:30My heart is weighted down with the visions of Haiti today. How can these things happen? I look to God for answers. The answers I…