1 Samuel 1:4-20 • Samuel is born to Hannah Mark 13:1-8 • Not one stone of the temple will be left standing The prayers of Hannah express sincere anguish and despair. In her prayers she seeks safety, comfort, hope and salvation. Salvation is not an event, but rather a process
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Psalm 85 • God restores and pardons. Luke 11:1-13 • Jesus teaches the disciples to pray. What is prayer and how do we pray? Like the disciples, we too, want to know how to pray. We often feel that we do not know how to pray. St. Clement of Alexandria
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Job 1:1; 2:1-10 • Attack on Job’s health. Mark 10: 13-15 • Jesus blesses little children There are a lot of assumptions made about people of faith. Secular society likes to challenge the sacred and are often suspicious of it. Even with in faith communities there is suspicion and assumptions.
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Psalm 130 • Out of the depths, I cry to God.Mark 5: 21-42 • Hemorrhaging woman healed.“In loving partnership we come, seeking, O God, your will to do. Our prayers and actions now receive; we freely offer them to you.” These words of prayer come from the hymn “In Loving
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Psalm 1 • Blessed are those who delight in God’s law. John 17: 6-19 • Jesus prays for the disciples. We love to escape as humans which is why COVID has been so difficult. It is hard to escape the realities of the world that we are living in. This
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Genesis 9:8-17 • The covenant between God and Noah. Mark 1:9-15 • The baptism, temptation and mission. The spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness into a liminal space where what once was is dissolved and what will be will emerge. The act of re-covenanting is an important practice that provides
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 • God will raise the dead. Matthew 25:1-13 • Parable of the 10 bridesmaids and lamps. In the movie trilogy Back to the Future the characters are provided with the benefit of foresight and retrospection. They see how decisions made by their ancestors guide the future. They
Continue readingGenesis 22:1-14 The command to sacrifice Isaac Matthew 10:40-42 Who do we welcome? The rhythm of practicing Sabbath helps remind us we are part of a wider, longer story started in creation and continuing on from the establishment of the commandments. God’s active engagement in lives of the past can
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1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 Cast your cares on God. Be alert. Acts 1:6-14 The ascension of Jesus. The disciples were waiting for the coming of the Spirit. We too are waiting for the coming of physical re-connection. Perhaps for the first time in a very long time, the world could
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Acts 2:42-27 The believers share everything in common. John 10:1-10 Jesus the good shepherd and the gate. As we building the body of Christ in a new way, the virtual movement claims us in new ways. How will we find balance with our wants and desires with the expectations of
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