Category: Devotions

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Lent 4 March 6, 2016                                                                        Jesus wept. (John 11:35, RSV) It has been a…

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Lent 3 February 28, 2016 Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house.   (Deuteronomy 26:11, NRSV)              We had another session this morning in…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Lent 3 February 28, 2016   Come, let us return to the Lord; for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up. (Hosea 6:1, NRSV)  The landlord says your rent is late … He may have…

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Lent 2 February 21, 2016 Then Jesus said to him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ The blind man said to him, ‘My teacher, let me see again.’  (Mark 10:51, NRSV)   Do you think about your sight very often?  You use it sixteen ……

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Lent 2 February 21, 2016   You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me. (Exodus 20:5, NRSV)  …

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Lent 1 February 14, 2016 Then Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.  (Joshua 7:6, NRSV)   We observed Ash Wednesday…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Lent 1 February 14, 2016   For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. (Romans 12:4-5, NRSV)   Only a few…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Epiphany 5 February 7, 2016   One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, ‘There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?’ (John 6:8-9, NRSV)   The game is called “Wink.”  It is…

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Epiphany 4 January 31, 2016     Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.  (1 Timothy 4:12)   Today was Youth Sunday in church.  Remember Youth Sunday from your high school days?  If…