desiring God … listening, waiting
Friday, January 17, 2025 Memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Rise Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your mat and walk?’ Jesus did not hesitate to call the earth that God created “holy,” although...
Thursday, January 16, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Partners Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord our God, our Maker. For he is our God. Men and women have been praying this way for centuries, and we are still. Let us kneel before...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Body work The children share in blood and Flesh. This sounds worse than it is. Usually we call it flesh and blood. We each carry a body around from the moment we’re born till the day we die. Not all of...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Light Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit. “Quiet! Come out of him,” and the spirit came out. Jesus’ fame spread through Galilee. While we were at the Vineyard Church in Urbana we sometimes encountered men and women who were occupied with the...
Monday, January 13, 2025 Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) News that’s fit to print This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. All day Saturday I thought about the fires in California. The University of Southern California ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025 The Baptism of Our Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Water and Spirit Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased. Watching the College Football Playoff games, I thought how the crowd watching Jesus’ baptism wasn’t large. Those folks...
Saturday, January 11, 2025 Saturday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Fire Yesterday Andi’s sonogram showed a healthy baby. The boys spent the morning with us while Andi was at the doctor and working at school. Miles and Jasper helped us light the first fire of the winter in...
Friday, January 10, 2025 Friday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) In the world Who indeed is the victor over the world? Plough Magazine often shares writing from Eberhart Arnold, theologian and founder of the Bruderhof in Germany. Today’s Bruderhof publishes the magazine. Here is something Herr Arnold wrote:...
Thursday, January 9, 2025 Thursday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Questions O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king’s son. This morning I finished listening to Pinocchio. Over and over I remembered pictures from the children’s version I read 65 years ago...
Posted on Jan 08, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Wednesday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Something more like dancing No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his loveis brought to perfection in us. “There are times when a good struggle comes as one...
