Reflections for

Trinity Sunday, Jun 15, 2014

Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20

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Living in a material world

God's good stuff

Jul 13, 2010 by Michael L. Lindvall

As a pastor in New York City, I've found myself challenged to think more deeply about “stuff." I've come to believe that the truth about what we too casually name “materialism” is not so simple. It ought to be clear, after all, that God doesn’t hate stuff. Witness the creation story. God invents stuff. At the end of each of six days, God engages in self-congratulation, pronouncing serial evening benedictions on the stuff created that day: “Good!”

Blogging Toward Sunday

When I can't pray

Romans 8:26-39

Jul 21, 2008 by Trygve David Johnson

When I can’t pray I often turn to the end of Romans 8. Here Paul pulls back the velvet curtain of revelation. What we see is amazing: a never-ending festivity where there sounds a strained, melodious, mysterious prayer that all the suffering in this present world cannot drown out. At the heart of the festivity is the Triune God praying for us.

Blogging Toward Sunday

When I was a boy

Genesis 1:1-2:4

May 11, 2008 by Nanette Sawyer

Biblical language about God often reflects the patriarchal cultures in which that language was crafted, but every once in a while we get a glimpse of a God who transcends male identity. In Isaiah, God comforts us like a nursing mother comforts her child. Jesus said that he wished to gather up the people of Jerusalem like a mother hen gathers up her chicks.

Living by the Word

The amazing commission

Matthew 28:16-20; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13

May 06, 2008 by Tom McGrath

There were only 11 disciples on the mountain. The group was incomplete because one had betrayed Jesus and given in to despair. The others hadn’t acquitted themselves much better during the time of trial. The impetuous one had denied Jesus three times. Some had scattered and hid. Together or on their own, it just didn’t seem they were enough.

Living by the Word

Mindful

Psalm 8

May 15, 2007 by Mark Ralls

Calvin Trillin’s lighthearted and best-selling tribute to his late wife, Alice, has made husbands like me nervous.

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