The Oddly Shaped Season – Lent 2

Genesis 15:1-12,17-18Psalm 27Phil 3:17-4:1Luke 13:31-35 Lent is an oddly shaped season. It is full of contradictions, opposites and uncomfortable places. It lasts 40 days. 40 is a symbolic number in scripture. There is rain for 40 days and nights. 40 years wandering in the wilderness for the children of Israel. 40 days in the desert…

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Widow’s Offering

I Kings 17:8-16 Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 In today’s Gospel reading, we meet a woman whose name is lost to us forever though we know she was a widow—a poor widow. She gave a tiny offering that day about a penny’s worth of coins. While Jesus and the disciples watched a crowd of…

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