Take a few minutes to review this week’s Scripture –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%205%3A1-11%20&version=NRSV;MSG IV.As we pay attention to Peter, what do you notice about him. Below is a quick overview of the Scripture passage – Jesus asks for some help from Peter …Peter … Continue reading
I. Our Scripture for this week presents us the familiar account of Jesus calling Peter and others to follow him. The passage ends with Jesus telling Peter, “‘Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.’ When … Continue reading
Welcome to a New Year, 2021. VII.As you take a moment to turn your attention to this week’s Scripture passage –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A14-22&version=NRSV;MSG Pay particular attention to – “…to set the burdened and battered free, to announce, ‘This is God’s year to … Continue reading
This week’s Scripture can be read at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A14-22&version=NRSV;MSG IV.Spend some time with the portions of Isaiah our Gospel text references – “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,because he has anointed meto bring good news to the poor.He has … Continue reading
I.Last week we heard John the Baptist speak of the one who brings the Kingdom. This week we follow Jesus into his hometown synagogue and hear his reading words from the Isaiah scroll and his commentary on that reading. What … Continue reading
May you be blessed on this Christmas Day! The traditional Scripture reading for Christmas is the account found in the Gospel of Luke, Luke 2:1-20 –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+2%3A1-20&version=NRSV Whether you are reading the above passage or our Scripture lesson for this week, … Continue reading
You can find this week’s Scripture at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%203%3A1-12&version=NRSV;CEB IV.I closed the last post with the question –“How would you name or describe the core of his call to others?” As I was considering my own question I realized different of … Continue reading
I.We come this week to a man the Gospel presents as called into the wilderness so that he might call others to …. Please read these words from the Gospel of Matthew and pay attention to John. Look at him. … Continue reading
Please take another opportunity to reread this week’s Scripture – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202%3A1-2%2C%207-15&version=NRSV;CEB;NET VI.I closed the other day by asking –“How do you understand what has led each to where they find themselves here?” I have been thinking about what led the … Continue reading
Take some time to reread the passage a couple of times –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202%3A1-2%2C%207-15&version=NRSV;CEB;NET IV.This passage opens for us a way to notice that the same event, the same piece of history is seen by different folk in very different ways. It … Continue reading