Ash and Oil: Remembering we are Dust, Leaning toward a New Creation - In this series of Lenten devotions from 2015, we ponder the connection between our mortality, sin, and creation's limitations. [Image: Flickr user Andrey]
At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? … With a loud cry, Jesus...
For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth…But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight... No more shall...
“O LORD, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill? Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right, and speak the truth from their heart…” (Psalm 15:1-2) Tomorrow is César Chávez...
When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the...
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is...
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (Rom. 8:22) God uses creation to speak to us. He put a rainbow in the sky as a sign of his...
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10) As temperatures slowly inch upwards and the sun lingers longer in the evening, that spring-time drumbeat...
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your...
Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God. Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? Do you know the balancings of the clouds...
Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture? When you drink of clear water, must you foul the rest with your feet? And must my...
I will heal their disloyalty; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily, he shall strike root like the forests of...
You have made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest come creeping out. The young lions roar for their...
"Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and...
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2) There...
I have a prayer. The most intense week of my life started when I entered a classroom for a one week course. The course was named “Exploring Indigenous Justice and Healing”, taught by Rupert Ross and...
So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his. (Hebrews 4:9-10) It's Wednesday. Which is not our Sabbath...
Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. (Proverbs 31:9) In the month of April 2013, the community of Kijabe, Kenya received rainfall levels equal to their total average...
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.” (Amos 5:24) God requires justice from his people – and not just a little drip of it here and there, but a rushing...
