A Lenten Devotion Let everything that breathes praise our God! Psalm 149:6 When someone first told me that trees breathe, I was skeptical. I know trees are well-evolved to collect, store and move liquids. Consider the maple tree and the flow of sap. But breathing? I didn’t grow up understanding Lent, and from what I’ve […]
Lenten Devotion–Sun, Mar 20, 2016–by Fran Bogle
Sunday, March 20 “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.” Once again as I look at the lines from the prayer Jesus taught, I think of my grandma. She believed these were the actual words that Jesus said, and taught me so. Imagine my surprise when I went to seminary, […]
Lenten Devotion– Sat, Mar 19, 2016–by Matt Aufman
Saturday, March 19 “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.” I have read enough about theology to know that this verse is something called a “doxology,” but I’ll be honest: I have never given much thought to what it means. That’s partly because it wasn’t part of the prayer I […]
Lenten Devotion–Fri, March 18, 2016–Brandon Jones
Friday March 18 “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.” Back when I played basketball in college, my teammates and I had a pre-game ritual. Part of our ritual included listening to an audio clip of a speech given by Al Pacino in the football film, Any Given Sunday. While […]
Lenten Devotion–Thurs, Mar 17, 2016–Nena Radtke
Thursday, March 17 “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.” Doxologies are formulations that praise God. So I remember after my husband died being asked if I was mad at God. Ire and praise generally don’t fall in the same sentence in our modern world. The question asked was a […]
Lenten Devotion–Wed., March 16, 2016–Rick Seaholm
Wednesday, March 16 “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.” Another clause in the Lord’s Prayer which requires me to break it down into ordinary speech if I’m to have any chance of grasping its meaning. “The kingdom, power and glory are yours for ever, [God].” It does make it […]
Lenten Devotion–Tuesday, March 15, 2016–by Debbie Clark
Tuesday, March 15 “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.” Our Ash Wednesday Soup and Writing Workshop began with six pieces of flip-chart paper taped to the windows in the Susan Dickerman Hall. On each page was a line from the Lord’s Prayer. The participants took markers and wrote words, […]
Lenten Devotion–Mon, Mar 14, 2016–by Willie Sordillo
Monday, March 14 “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.” For the second time in this short prayer we come up against this problematic word, kingdom. We’ve heard from Debbie about the meaning this word carried in its historical context, an intentional challenge to the tyrants who ruled strictly class-based […]
Lenten Devotion–Sun, Mar 13, 2016–by Debbie Clark
Sunday, March 13 “And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” Several times a year, Fran and I load up her car, settle Jeannie in the back seat, and head south–either to Pennsylvania or Virginia or both. The best thing about the car ride is extended time for conversation. We talk about […]
Lenten Devotion–Sat, Mar 12, 2016–by Rick Seaholm
Saturday, March 12 “And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” How is it that “temptation” and “evil” end up in the same clause, here? On a daily basis, I feel like the only things that tempt me are snacks, both decadent and humdrum, and the lure of staying up later than […]