Reflections for

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct 04, 2015

Job 1:1, 2:1-10; Psalm 26; (Genesis 2:18-24; Psalm 8;) Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16

Living by the Word

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Mark 10:2–16

Sep 25, 2012 by Kathy Wolf Reed

One summer when I was a children’s camp counselor at a Presbyterian camp in northern Indiana, I spent long days listening to what we counselors affectionately referred to as nonstop “wubbins questions.”

“Wubbins if I don’t know how to swim?”

“Wubbins if a bear comes into our cabin?”

Features

Glimpse of the holy

Advent with a toddler

Nov 23, 2011 by Kathleen Hirsch

I decided our family's Christmas would be simple and spirit-centered. Green to parenting, I defined spiritual as anything that allowed me a minute to reflect on what, beyond the laundry, mattered.

Poetry

After Psalm Eight

Aug 12, 2011 by Richie Hofmann

From the terrace, I can see the work
of your fingers: the constellation Perseus,
his sword, trailing the sea,
fixed against the sky. The masterwork
of light which lingers on the surface
of the sea transfixes me.

The nightfall has blurred the place
where your fingers bind ocean to air.
Stepping off the dock, I shiver
against the water, unmindful of my face,
hushed and pale and unaware.
And, who am I—quivering—

that you would give me heed?
A moon-jelly ribboning beneath my feet
glows faint like a ghost,
its green light tangled in the weeds.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Is it lawful...?

Job 1:1, 2:1-10; Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16

Sep 28, 2009 by A. Katherine Grieb

Beginning preachers often assume that only after they have built up the trust of the congregation by assuring them of God's lovingkindness will they have earned the right to deliver the harder words of scripture.

Living by the Word

Called to be a family

Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16

Sep 22, 2009 by Christine R. Bartholomew

Here in America, our family lives present a strange paradox. We often wish that our families would function in an emotionally healthy way and look something like the family on Leave It to Beaver. Yet it’s normal for a family to be dysfunctional and fractured. There’s our ideal of family, and then there’s the reality.

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