ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 31, 2021Prayer for the Week:When the grief refuses to subsideWhen the parades bring no comfortWhen the kind gestures do nothing for the painI pray for you, Lord God,To sit with meTo be my companion in the darknessTo be my friend who understandsWhen so few others can.I am thankful for Memorial Day,But I wish my family was notSo directly and personally involved.I wish this heartache on no
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 30, 2021Scripture: Luke 8:43-44Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years; and though she had spent all she had on physicians, no one could cure her. She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of his clothes, and immediately her hemorrhage stopped. Thought for the Day: This is where hopelessness learns how it has no final authority in this
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 29, 2021Scripture: Luke 8:1-3Soon afterwards Jesus went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 28, 2021Scripture: Luke 4:38-39After leaving the synagogue Jesus entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus about her. Then he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them. Thought for the Day: Please note that Peter (Simon) had a mother-in-law which I’m pretty sure means he
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 27, 2021Scripture: Luke 6:1-2One Sabbath, as Jesus was going through the wheat fields, his disciples were picking the heads of wheat, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you breaking the Sabbath law?” Thought for the Day: The last thing Jesus ever intended to do was to create a new religion. Now that I’ve made that statement, I cannot prove
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 26, 2021Scripture: Luke 5:27-32Afterward, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at a kiosk for collecting taxes. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Levi got up, left everything behind, and followed him. Then Levi threw a great banquet for Jesus in his home. A large number of tax collectors and others sat down to eat with them. The Pharisees and their legal
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 25, 2021Scripture: Luke 5:12-13Jesus was in one of the towns where there was also a man covered with a skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged, “Lord, if you want, you can make me clean.” Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do want to. Be clean.” Instantly, the skin disease left him. Thought for the Day:
A PENTECOST PRAYERECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 24, 2021Prayer for the Week: O Breath of Life, O Spirit of Grace, we seek your holy presence that is forever with us and for us. Assist our awareness so we are better able to recognize you, your counsel and your guidance. In you, there is a power to change lives, to change systems and structures. Where there is unhealthiness and unwholeness, fill us
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 23, 2021Scripture: Acts 2:7-8They were surprised and amazed, saying, “Look, aren’t all the people who are speaking Galileans, every one of them? How then can each of us hear them speaking in our native language?” Thought for the Day: Something happened in that moment as people from every culture and nation and background found common ground, a sacred space where all divisions disappeared. I’ve often said
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGMay 22, 2021Scripture: Acts 2:4aThey were all filled with the Holy Spirit… Thought for the Day: Are you sure it wasn’t just the good ones? Or maybe those who could recite the correct doctrine? Or possibly those who had been born to the right family? It surely was not “all” of them, was it? It is the Holy Spirit, and you would think the Holy Spirit would