Happy octave of New Year to you. I greet you from my study in Chuckatuck and this past week was a decent week for our Church. We didn’t have any substantial hiccups with heat and air conditioning – as opposed to Christmas Eve and the heat going out. We made preparation to study the books […]
We hear and echo the plea that God’s power might come with great might to save us because we, in our weakness, are unable to attain God’s grace. We ask for God’s bounty to come on us so we can not lose heart. Our Hebrew Scripture from the Prophet Isaiah helps us transition from the […]
In worship today we are invited to look for God’s messengers, the prophets who invite us to change our course (repent) and prepare ourselves to receive god’s salvation. There is a warning which we can hear to lead us back to relationship with God. Our reading from Hebrew Scripture in the Prophet Isaiah declares that […]
We continued our journey in Advent and focused on our preparation and the work of the messenger. Isaiah helped remind us of the hope he offered to his generation – restoration after exile and return to being the chosen people of God. Yet we heard the story of John (the Baptist) and his offering of […]
Today marked the continuation of our journey with John the Baptist, although this week his role is from the borders of the story. John, who has been faithful doing his job and pointing at the coming Messiah wonders if Jesus, who doesn’t look anything like the expected Messiah, is really the one. John’s future did […]
We’ve been looking at the season of Advent as a time of preparation. While, on the one hand, that is a good thing; yet on the other, considering we know the rest of the story (Jesus’ birth celebrated at Christmas and Easter) it is hard to truly prepare. Yet the gospel holds John the Baptist […]