by Communications | Mar 14, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15, 2020This week’s reading: John 4:5-42“How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” —The Woman at the Well, to Jesus (John 4:9) This week we read the story of Jesus’s encounter of the woman at the well. Some...
by Communications | Mar 13, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Friday, March 13, 2020“I lift my eyes to the hills—from where will my help come?” (Psalm 121:1) Questions drove the psalmist to God, where the psalmist receives comfort and certainty. When you bring your concerns to God, do you feel more like Nicodemus—even more...
by Communications | Mar 12, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Thursday, March 12, 2020“If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?” —Jesus, to Nicodemus (John 3:10) Nicodemus was an educated, powerful man. But when he talked to Jesus he felt flummoxed,...
by Communications | Mar 11, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Wednesday, March 11, 2020“Can anyone enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” —Nicodemus, to Jesus (John 3:4) Nicodemus struggles to apply regular logic to the strangeness of Jesus’s teachings. What parts of Christian faith or Lutheran theology have...
by Communications | Mar 10, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Tuesday, March 10, 2020“How can anyone be born after having grown old?” —Nicodemus, to Jesus (John 3:4) Can you think of a time when you or someone you know has experienced a renewal, or has found new purpose, or rediscovered an old passion—a time when someone has...
by Communications | Mar 9, 2020 | Lent 2020 |
Monday, March 9, 2020 “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?” —Jesus, to Nicodemus (John 3:10) In his conversation with Jesus, Nicodemus has connected understanding and belief. But the two do not need to go together. For your...
