Relating, Creating, Transforming
“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.” ― Vera Nazarian John 17:1-11 …so that […]
Read MoreJohn 14:1-14New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition ———————————————————————- Dear Friends, Years ago, I was fortunate to be part of a grant program with Interfaith Philadelphia which brought together youth from various Christian traditions in Greater Philadelphia together to explore what it meant to for them to be a Christian in a pluralistic world. These students, […]
Read MoreJohn 10:1-10 I’ve always felt that when I’m pressured [or feel forced] to do something in life, I usually end up rejecting the idea, or if I go ahead with it, I don’t feel so great about it. More often than not, I think all of us feel better about major decisions or life shifts […]
Read More“To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.” — Scot McKnight————————————————————————————————–Dear Friends: Where are you being called to follow? The concept of “following” holds unique meaning in this era of social media. When […]
Read More“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil John 12:1–812 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. […]
Read MoreLuke 6:17–23 [NRSV]17 [Jesus] came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 18 They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who […]
Read MorePeople love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing. — Trevor Noah ————————————————————————————————–Luke […]
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“The most sacred invitation that a person can extend to us is to invite us into their pain. But that means that we have to choose to knock on a door that we often prefer to pretend is not there.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough John 2:1-11On the third day there was a wedding in Cana […]
Read More———————-“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.” ― Walt Whitman He Qi, The Adoration of the Magi Matthew 2:1-2 NRSVIn the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of […]
Read MoreHello Friends, Wherever you are today, whatever you are feeling, know that you are loved and valued. John 6:58 Jesus said to them…This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever. The feeding of the […]
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