secretary Believing [in] Jesus View in browser July 21, 2022 Believing [in] Jesus Matt Laney After [Jesus] was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. – John 2:22 (NRSV) As a teenager in an evangelical youth fellowship, I was … Read more
What We Don’t Know View in browser July 20, 2022 What We Don’t Know Martha Spong Then [they] began to complain about [Jesus] because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he … Read more
Tell Us How You Really Feel View in browser July 19, 2022 Tell Us How You Really Feel Christina Villa “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” – Mark 11:21 (NRSV) I’m always a little surprised to find that the Jesus in the Bible is really not the same as the Jesus … Read more
Daily Devotional for Small Group Discussion: The Blue Skates View in browser July 18, 2022 The Blue Skates Phiwa Langeni The whole congregation of believers was united as one—one heart, one mind! They didn’t even claim ownership of their own possessions. No one said, “That’s mine; you can’t have it.” They shared everything. – Acts … Read more
Pause View in browser July 17, 2022 Pause Chris Mereschuk Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. You love evil more than good and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah. … Read more
Heeding the Alarm View in browser July 16, 2022 Heeding the Alarm Marilyn Pagán-Banks Why do you brag of evil, “Big Man”? God’s mercy carries the day. – Psalm 52:1-2 (MSG) I was half-way through watching a Netflix mini-series called Intimacy when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The series is based on three … Read more
Talking with Trees View in browser July 15, 2022 Talking with Trees Molly Baskette The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it … Read more
The Gift of Anger View in browser July 14, 2022 The Gift of Anger John Edgerton Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God? You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened … Read more
Two Truths and a Lie View in browser July 13, 2022 Two Truths and a Lie Donna Schaper [The disciples] saw Jesus walking on the lake. – John 6:19 (NRSV) Truth One: Women are human beings. They are not more human than men or less human than men; they are human. Truth Two: People of … Read more
Drunken Confession View in browser July 12, 2022 Drunken Confession Rachel Hackenberg A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite. “O Lord my God, in you I take refuge. If I have plundered my foe without cause, then let the enemy pursue and overtake me.” – Psalm 7 excerpts … Read more