In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you […]
Lenten Devotional 2025
Lenten Devotion–Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.’–Matthew 19:14 The day I interviewed for the Student Minister position in the fall of 2002 was the first day I stepped foot on the Edwards Church campus. I […]
Lenten Devotion–March 11, 2025
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2) I’ve always been somewhat of an activist, wanting to stand up for the underdog. When I started to just barely understand climate change, I got involved. And when I first became vegan, my activism got turbo charged. But […]
Lenten Devotion–Monday, March 10, 2025
And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And all ate and were filled. What was left over was gathered up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.–Luke 9:16-17 May we trust that when we […]
Lenten Devotion–March 9, 2025
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of the city;* it shall not be moved; God will help it when the morning dawns. The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. The Lord of […]
Lenten Devotion–March 8, 2025
And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.’ And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And […]
Lenten Devotion–Friday, March 7, 2025
I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.–Ephesians 3:18-19 Every Friday during Lent, our Daily Devotion will […]
Lenten Devotion–Thursday, March 6, 2025
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and God’s love is perfected in us.–I John 4:11 Back in January, as part of a soup-making gathering, Grace Gamez and Rob DeLossa were planning to lead […]
Lenten Devotional–Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Ash Wednesday For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and […]