Devotionals

Lenten Devotional by Brandon Jones April 5, 2017   “If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.”  (Isaiah 58:10)   Photo: “Haleakala Sunrise” by Brandon Jones Haiku: “Do Justice” by Brandon Jones   God of […]

Lenten Devotional by Laura Litman April 4, 2017   “Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as indeed you are doing.”  (1 Thessalonians 5:11)   As a child I used to be terrified to speak in public.  I still feel a little clamor of panic in the moments before presenting in a […]

Lenten Devotional by Rick Seaholm April 3, 2017   “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours…” (Genesis 1:29, NIV)   Sanctuary. I’ve written previously in this Lenten series that it’s a given for me, according […]

Lenten Devotional by Beth Young April 2, 2017   “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound!”   “…Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—” (Luke 7:47) We had lots of children in our neighborhood in Blacksburg, Virginia, and we spent all day outside playing together, regardless of age.  After supper in the […]

Lenten Devotional by Nicola Seaholm April 1, 2017 Song of Solomon 2:8, 10-12, 15-17   8 The voice of my beloved!  Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. 10 My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; 11 for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.  […]

Lenten Devotional by Dawn Sorensen March 31, 2017   The church I grew up in was located in a rural farm town in Michigan. It was not fancy. There was no stained glass, the pews were hand made by George Poe and Bill Smith. It was exactly in the center of the village of Crystal […]

Lenten Devotional by Willie Sordillo March 30, 2017   Wade in the water, wade in the water, children.  Wade in the water; God’s gonna trouble the water.   Safety is at best a relative term.  None of us is ever really safe-  you can live a healthy lifestyle and still come down with a debilitating […]

Lenten Devotional by Holly White March 29, 2017   “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”  (Psalm 11:3)   I was born a Catholic but I was more a holiday one.  On a dare, I found the Baptist religion.  I felt more at home there but a bit left out.  Then […]

Lenten Devotional by Matt Aufman March 28, 2017   “So Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew. Blessed are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. […]

Lenten Devotional by Marilyn Alabran March 27, 2017   A Gathering of Women (2010)   Several years ago, a group of women from Edwards Church gathered in Fellowship Hall and we made colored clay beads to send to Boston Children’s Hospital.  The beads were for children who had cancer.  Each color stood for something the […]