“But the Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing.’” Luke 10: 41-42a Have you ever noticed the irony that technology brings into our lives? The faster things can be done the more we do. The more we do, the more new thingsContinue reading “Time for Comfort: The Lie of Efficiency (Luke 10:41-42a)”
Category Archives: Comfort
Time for Comfort: Facing Our Limits (Genesis 1:14-15)
“And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.’ And it was so.”Continue reading “Time for Comfort: Facing Our Limits (Genesis 1:14-15)”
Time for Comfort: There is never enough (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
“What has been will be again,what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 Let’s face it, our culture is infatuated with busy-ness. It is easy to be sucked in. We stack our days full of activities. For many of us the worth we assign ourselves is directlyContinue reading “Time for Comfort: There is never enough (Ecclesiastes 1:9)”
Spiritual Practices: Grounded Present (Comfort- Luke 24:34-31)
“When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.” Luke 24: 30-31 It is so easy to imagine oneself along the road to Emmaus. I would have been there.Continue reading “Spiritual Practices: Grounded Present (Comfort- Luke 24:34-31)”
Lent Reflection: Prayer of Restoration (Philippians 2: 9-11)
“Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:Continue reading “Lent Reflection: Prayer of Restoration (Philippians 2: 9-11)”
Lent Reflection: My Confession (Philippians 2: 5-8)
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himselfContinue reading “Lent Reflection: My Confession (Philippians 2: 5-8)”
Epiphany Comfort: Commissioning + Blessing
“Trust in the Lord, and do good.” -Psalm 37:3 The season of Lent is nearly upon us. This is the stretch of time in the liturgical year when we prepare for Easter. The 40 days of Lent hold the echos of Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness. And so often we use the coming weeksContinue reading “Epiphany Comfort: Commissioning + Blessing”
Epiphany Comfort: The Hopeless Heart
“The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out, But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human, I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, Not as they pretend to be.” Jeremiah 17:Continue reading “Epiphany Comfort: The Hopeless Heart”
Epiphany Comfort: True Home
“For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those whoContinue reading “Epiphany Comfort: True Home”
Epiphany Comfort: Being Unpopular
“He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”. . .All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throwContinue reading “Epiphany Comfort: Being Unpopular”
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