Tag: Luke

On the Road to Emmaus

A number of years ago – I can’t really remember how long ago – I was reading through Luke. It wasn’t the first time I had read Luke, or at least parts of it, but as often happens when I’m reading scripture I saw something...

Opening Gifts

Today is Christmas Day! Hallelujah! It is a wonderful day of celebration and great joy! I’ve been thinking today about gifts, wrapped and opened. (Well, technically I was thinking about it yesterday when I wrote this and scheduled it to post). Sometimes a gift is...

The Role of Mary in the Christmas Story

The sermon series at my church for the Advent season is on Encountering God. Each week Pr. Dave is sharing about how different people encountered God as part of the Christmas story. Yesterday we heard about how Mary encountered God, with a focus on the...

What Is Christmas All About?

I’ve been tackling my to do list today, and getting ready to go shopping with my son so he can spend his Christmas money from G’ma and G’pa and I can get some white elephant gifts for a party we are going to tomorrow.  I’ve also...

Biblical Prayers – My Tuesday Three

Today I want to just share three of my favorite prayers from scripture. No commentary, just the scripture, in part because I just don’t have the time or energy for commentary and in part because they have the power to stand alone and require no...

Learning to Forgive – A Poem

Many years ago the Lord taught me the importance of forgiving others. The command to forgive as we have been forgiven is not meant to be a burden, but rather a means of giving our burdens to God and lightening our spiritual load. I never...

On Being a Faithful Steward

The other day I received this great Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote in my email inbox as a “Quotemeal” from Heartlight.org: There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely difficult to find, of living every day as though it were our last, and yet...