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  • Justice Prayers - July 22, 2020

    Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of...
    July 22, 2020
  • Ten Questions for Coping with COVID

    How have you been coping with the changes brought about by COVID? As someone with a penchant for melancholy I knew that I was going to have to do something to keep from travelling down a negative...
    July 20, 2020
  • Are Synod Statements helpful?

    It is a primary belief of reformed Christians that God is at work in the world healing that which is broken and calling all Christians to participate in God’s redemption of the world. In addition...
    July 17, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - July 15, 2020

    Jesus in your name we pray, come and fill our hearts today. Lord give us strength to live for you and glorify your name. - Paul Baloche U.S. Reinstates Federal Execution A federal prison in Indiana...
    July 15, 2020
  • Justice Crushes

    I often joke about my “justice crushes” -- the people I spy on, or listen to, or read about, whose work helps to remind me of why I’m a Christian, why it’s worth it to keep caring, why it feels right...
    July 13, 2020
  • Justified in Christ’s Love

    Recently, I spoke on the phone to one of my neighbors who was terminally ill. She was excited to hear my voice though from afar due to COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing is a necessity as we have to...
    July 10, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - July 8, 2020

    You believe in God for your soul. Believe in him about your property. Believe in God about your sick wife or your dying child. Believe in God about your losses and bad debts and declining business. -...
    July 8, 2020
  • Honor Beats

    I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name, I will lift my hands. (Ps. 63) Raising our hands is an outward expression of an inward posture. God permits us to respond in many ways as we...
    July 6, 2020
  • A Time to Listen: Learning from Shad

    The last few weeks have been both difficult and inspiring, challenging and moving. An apocryphal saying attributed to African theologian and bishop Augustine of Hippo says that ‘hope has two beautiful...
    July 3, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - July 1, 2020

    God of uncovered secrets, God of fearless truth: to have faith in your goodness is to trust that after all we would hide is revealed, and all of our whispers are heard, your undying love will remain...
    July 1, 2020
  • A Pandemic Examen

    Is it just me, or has it been hard to remember what day it is during this pandemic? I’ve been home, physically distancing for months - juggling working from my new home office/couch, recording video...
    June 29, 2020
  • Treaty Money

    I always knew about the treaty money I am supposed to get every year because of the treaty that I am a part of. My mom would mention every once in a while about collecting it. Historically, you would...
    June 26, 2020