Imagine New Ways
For Sunday, August 4, 2013 – Luke 12:13-21 It isn’t that he did anything wrong exactly, the land owner whose crops yielded abundantly. Nature gives. Should he regret the bounty of the harvest? Should he let it go to waste in the field, proving himself to be a lazy and ungrateful servant? No, the problem for the land […]
Keep On
For Sunday, July 28, 2013 – Luke 11:1-13 In the book Clinging, the Experience of Prayer, Emilie Griffin begins this way: “There is a moment between intending to pray and actually praying that is as dark and silent as any moment in our lives. It is the split second between thinking about prayer and really praying. For […]
Worry and Compassion
For Sunday, July 21, 2013 – Luke 10:38-42 and Colossians 1:15-28 Can’t you hear the affection in his voice: “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things.” Jesus calls it like he sees it—and I think what he sees is not only Martha, but all of us. How prone we are to worry and distraction! […]
To you, O Lord, we lift up our soul
For Sunday, July 14, 2013 – Psalm 25:1-10 The little church that is my home within The Church of the Saviour has come through some difficult passages recently. We found we could no longer sustain our central mission, The Potter’s House, a place of hospitality and encounter, and yet we struggled to open our hearts to […]
