Devotionals

Lenten Devotional by Rick Seaholm March 24, 2017   “You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.” (Psalm 32:7, NIV)   As I alluded to in a previous reflection here (March 10), the term “sanctuary” has a long-standing representation for me which is physical in […]

Lenten Devotional by Amy Plackowski March 23, 2016   Well into my adolescence, I looked up at the stained-glass image on the windows of my hometown church and imagined that the genderless, disembodied, slightly scowling face I saw was the face of God.   I was probably in high school when I realized it was […]

Lenten Devotional by Helen Draper March 22, 2017   No Matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey,        you are welcome here.               —United Church of Christ   Dear God,   In these challenging times, help us to live by these important words.  Please guide each of us to find the […]

Lenten Devotional by Don Akin March 21, 2017   “I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to […]

Lenten Devotional by Art Norton March 20, 2017   O loving God, we thank you for the blessing of ever widening circles of candlelit prayer.  Amen

Lenten Devotional by Shane Montoya March 19, 2017   “God will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.” (Psalm 91:4)   “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified”. (1 Corinthians 2:2)   Most of us […]

Lenten Devotional by Wendy Greenleaf March 18, 2017   I saw my first robin at Cushing today. Not the robust variety that winters over with us but the slender robins that herald the arrival of spring. A small flock of them, about eleven or so, were vigorously pecking at the semi frozen ground. The robins’ […]

Lenten Devotional by Myrna Phelps March 17, 2017   Being the daughter and granddaughter of Southern Baptist Ministers, I was taught to look to the Bible for answers to my problems. As I struggle to understand the direction our world seems to be headed, I find comfort in the Word. May these words speak comfort […]

Lenten Devotional by Bruce Cichowlas March 16, 2017   “Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.  Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.  Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals.” (Psalm 150:3-5)   As an adolescent, I studied organ with the organist […]

Lenten Reflection by Terri Taylor March 15, 2017   “Safe Space; Brave Space.”   Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another. But they […]