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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Saturday, March 7 and Sunday, March 8, 2020This week’s reading: John 2:23-3:17 “How can these things be?”—Nicodemus, to Jesus (John 3:9) Nicodemus, a teacher and priest, comes to Jesus laden with questions. What confuses you about faith, church, or the Bible?

Friday, March 7, 2020“What is this that you have done?” —God, to Eve (Genesis 3:13)It is easy to read God’s question to Eve as an accusation. (This might be how Eve understood it.) Consider this question in a new light: Is there a way that God could have been asking...