by Communications | Mar 21, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22, 2020This week’s reading: John 9:1–41“Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” —The disciples, to Jesus (John...
by Communications | Mar 20, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Friday, March 20, 2020“Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” —The disciples, asking each other about Jesus (John 4:33) Here the disciples gossip about Jesus, but they do not talk to him. Why do we gossip about others? What might change if we spoke to people...
by Communications | Mar 19, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Thursday, March 19, 2020 “Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, ‘What do you want?’ or, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’” (John 4:27) Jesus’ disciples were confused when they found Jesus speaking to the...
by Communications | Mar 18, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Wednesday, March 18, 2020“He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” —The Woman at the Well, to the people in her community (John 4:29) It was not the woman’s certainty, but her doubt—her questions—that drove other people to seek out Jesus. What question drives you to seek...
by Communications | Mar 17, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Tuesday, March 17, 2020“Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” —The Woman at the Well, to Jesus (John 4:12)As Jesus offers the woman something truly satisfactory, she compares Jesus to an...
by Communications | Mar 16, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Monday, March 16, 2020“Where do you get that living water?” —The Woman at the Well, to Jesus (John 4:11) Jesus tells the woman at the well that he has living water—and that she should have known to ask him for some of that. Can you remember a time when you asked God...