Reflections for

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sep 13, 2015

Proverbs 1:20-33; Psalm 19; (Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 116:1-9 or Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 - 8:1;) James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38

Living by the Word

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Mark 8:31–38

Feb 21, 2012 by Phyllis Kersten

In the gospel lesson for the second Sunday in Lent, Jesus is no longer in the wilderness. But he is being tempted nonetheless.

Blogging Toward Sunday

What do you believe?

Matthew 16:13–20

Aug 15, 2011 by Emlyn A. Ott

I'm intrigued by the public radio program This I Believe. How often are we asked direct questions about what we believe? And what would you or I say when asked by Jesus, "Who do you say that I am?"

Century Blogs

Throwing open the doors

May 24, 2011 by Elizabeth Myer Boulton

A few weeks before I was ordained, a gunman entered a Benedictine monastery just north of Kansas City. The man parked his car in the parking lot, walked into the monastery and opened fire. He shot and killed two monks and wounded two others; then he marched into the chapel and shot himself in the head.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Jesus Christ the apple tree

Proberbs 1:20-33; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38

Sep 08, 2009 by Glenn Mitchell

I recently purchased the 1800s' homestead where I’ve lived for the past five years, and I’m busy renovating the house and outbuildings. There are a few old apple trees on the three-and-a-half acre property, my favorite of which sends forth green every year from a trunk that appears 90 percent dead.

Living by the Word

Let go

James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38

Sep 08, 2009 by Glenn Mitchell

When I was a kid, my brother and I loved playing with toy dinosaurs. I’d let my brother take the ever-popular T. Rex while I went for the stegosaurus. Its back plates and tail spikes were cool, but it was this dinosaur’s second brain that put it over the top for me. I think I intuited at an early age that two brains are a good idea in the scheme of things.

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