Isaiah 58:1-12 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 So, here we all are at the beginning of our Lenten journey. The beginning of the 40 days of preparation for Easter. The beginning of the journey to the cross. Lent really is an odd season. I’ve heard some people liken it to baseball spring training. Like…
[Originally published on Theologica] When I think of Mary, the mother of Jesus, the first thing that comes to mind is a worship drama in which I participated a few years ago. I’m not one for worship drama, but this was different from anything I had seen. It was on an Advent Wednesday evening, at…
1 Sam2:18-20, 26 Psalm 148 Col 3:12-17 Luke 2:41-52 A friend of mine asked me last week—do you think Mary understood? Do you think Mary really knew? At her church, the music being performed in honor of Christmas included the beautiful song, “Mary did you know?” just as our Christmas Eve service here did as…
What I want to proclaim to you today is that Jesus’ heals the sick, makes the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the mute to speak. I want to tell you that he is the healer of our every ill, that he makes all things well. But, I don’t know how to do that.…
Shepherdess Writes 