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The Godly Beauty Within Us

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Passion Sunday Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. (Psalm 50:2) The great thing about birds, is that they often have beautiful things within them. The pale blue of the robin’s egg … the emerald sheen of an emu’s egg … and the lavender and brown blotched vulture egg. I…

Warts and All

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL LENT 5 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. (Romans 8:3) Old Bessie met her maker last week. The undertaker came and carted her…

Faith in the Ordinary Days

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL LENT 4 For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified. (1 Corinthians 1:22) Have you ever prayed for a miracle? Have you ever had a prayer for a miracle answered? How have you felt when your prayer wasn’t answered in the way you had hoped? Were you able…

Martyrdom Revisited

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Lent 2 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?’ I said to him, ‘Sir, you are the one that knows.’ Then he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their…

The Alphabet Prayer

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL LEnt 1 Guest Devotioneer Leigh Trayer “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10) A poor man found himself in a forest as night fell, and he had no prayer book to say his evening prayers. So he…

Transfiguration Moments

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Transfiguration Sunday Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. (Matthew 17:1-2) I love Camp Nawakwa in Arendtsville, PA. …

Silence

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL EPIPHANY 7 ‘Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. (Job 13:13) I’m a little empty at the moment. Have you ever had one of those days … or evening, in my case? Moments when your well feels a little dry? I’m sort of there tonight as…

Forgiveness

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL EPIPHANY 6 Then Peter came and said to him, ‘Lord, if another member of the church* sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven* times. (Matthew 18:21-22) It was the question of the day this morning…

Millennials

Email Devotional Epiphany 5 Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. (Romans 12:12) It continues to be one of my favorite weekends of the year. (I have often said that if I could find someone to pay me to run retreats every weekend, I would leave parish ministry in a heartbeat. But…

Youth

Email Devotion Epiphany 4 May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars, cut for the building of a palace. (Psalm 144:12) I hear it a lot. I will admit that I have said it myself. It is spoken often on Sundays like today’s Youth Sunday celebration. “Our youth are the…