by Communications | Apr 16, 2017 | Lenten Devotional |
Sunday, April 16 Easter Sunday Matthew 28:1–10 • Resurrection of Our Lord After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord,...
by Communications | Apr 15, 2017 | Lenten Devotional |
Saturday, April 15 Holy God, on this holy night, in your holy light, we see the story of our life in you: The earth is your perfect creation; we are saved in the ark during the flood; we are granted a reprieve from sacrifice; we escape the enemy army; we are enlivened...
by Communications | Apr 14, 2017 | Lenten Devotional |
Friday, April 14 Good Friday “If we cannot look to the church to decry poverty, neither can we look to it to witness to Christ. Christ is not in that church. Christ is in the streets. The crucifixion of Christ is not only two thousand years ago; it is every day. It is...
by Communications | Apr 13, 2017 | Lenten Devotional |
Thursday, April 13 Maundy Thursday “Here your heart must go out in love and learn that [Holy Communion] is a sacrament of love. As love and support are given you, you in turn must render love and support to Christ in his needy ones. ... For the sacrament has no...
by Communications | Apr 12, 2017 | Lenten Devotional |
Wednesday, April 12 “Jesus goes to his death with clarity and confidence, faithful to God to the end and treating his death as an expression of service to his friends. Paraphrasing Micah 6:8, we can say that Jesus saw with clarity right to the end what God demands of...
by Communications | Apr 11, 2017 | Lenten Devotional |
Tuesday, April 11 Great God, in Christ, you call our name and then receive us as your own, not through some merit, right, or claim, but by your gracious love alone. We strain to glimpse your mercy seat and find you kneeling at our feet. Then take the towel, and break...
