Lenten Devotional 2012

This is meant to be published Tuesday, 2/26/2019 at 4am and be distributed via MailChimp to Rick at 5am, showing the complete post in the email. Luke 1:5-25 I’m fascinated by this passage. At least a bit, I admit, because it is second-level scripture that makes me feel like a church insider. If you get […]

Thursday, April 5 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand.  They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Come forward.’ Then he said to them, ‘Is […]

Wednesday, April 4 “Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.  Luke 9:1-2 In March, 2010, Patti and I first came to Edwards Church, and it has been a healing […]

Tuesday, April 3 “I give you thanks O God, with my whole heart….On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul.”  2008 was the season of healing for me because I had kidney stones, my Dad passed from Alzheimer’s, kidney cancer had come and gone and to top that off […]

Monday, April 2 “The crowd that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David…Hosanna in the highest heaven!”   Matthew 21:9 Every year, on Psalm Sunday, during the Words with the Young People, we put ourselves into the shoes (or sandals) of the crowd that gathered to welcome […]

But Peter said, “I have no silver of gold, but what I have I give you; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk.”  Acts 3:6 Those of us who spent any time at 54 Ardmore Street in Hamden CT know first hand of the inexplicable healing power of Ethel’s chicken […]

Thursday, March 29 “Be still, and know that I am God.”  Psalm 46:10a Many of you know that on Monday evenings I help with the veteran’s yoga program.  This has been an amazing experience.  Men, from different branches of services, from different wars all seeking peace from a shared experience of trauma.  A veteran with […]

Wednesday, March 28 Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them.  And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay.   March […]

Tuesday, March 27   Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff — they comfort me  Psalm 23:4  My grandmother loved the Twenty Third psalm and taught me this verse this way: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the […]