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Disciplined Prayer

The needed change within us is God’s work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God: it is a grace that is given…. In this regard it would be proper to speak of “the…

Spiritual Road Kill … Rescued

There is a great difference between the skill and the grace of prayer. The skill is but the outside, the shape, the carcass of our responsibility. The grace is the soul and spirit that gives it life, vigor and efficacy, that renders it acceptable to God and of real advantage to ourselves. The skill consists…

Stop. Look. Go.

New Day Sermon Pentecost 11 We can speed through life trying to pull ourselves up by our “bootstraps,” but God invites us to live differently. Today’s New Day sermon begins with a clip from the movie Shenadoah.

So Many Reminders ….

I’m leaving the Intensive Care Unit yesterday afternoon after having spent some time with one of our church families that has a loved one in the ICU. As I walk down the hall I pass a window that offers a lovely view of the southeast corner of Lancaster city, from the relatively high 6th floor…

Our Father ….

EMAIL DEVOTION week of LENT 2 ‘Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9-10) The end of the month often finds me finishing my home communion visits. They are one of the blessings I enjoy in parish…

Out of the Depths

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL WEEK OF Pentecost 17 Out of the depths I cry to you; O Lord God, hear me calling. Incline your ear to my distress in spite of my rebelling. Do not regard my sinful deeds. Send me the grace my spirit needs; without it I am nothing. (ELW Hymn 600) Like you, I find myself conflicted. I am admittedly…

The Lutheran Rosary

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Easter 3 Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving. (Colossians 4:2) In the past couple of weeks, I have had three members of our church ask me about rosary beads. Two were former Roman Catholics … one was a person who has simply enjoys a variety of spiritual disciplines. But…

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…

Conversation

Email Devotion Pentecost 19 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. (Jeremiah 31:31, NRSV) As I thought about today’s sermon theme of “identity,” I found myself wandering around some old illustrations, and this one crossed my homiletical…

Do You Believe in Prayer?

New Day Sermon Pentecost 10 Before listening to the sermon be sure to watch this comical and unorthodox prayer by Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own. Understanding the loving relationship we have with God a large part of prayer. As we walk the road of life, we do not walk alone. May God help…