Use your imagination for a moment. Imagine yourself as the leper Jesus encountered in our reading for today.
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Our scripture reading today comes from one of the New Testament books known as the Pastoral Letters.
There are different kinds of tired, aren’t there? You’ve experienced being tired when you have finished a project that you feel good about. You’re tired — maybe even exhausted — but you can say, “I’m tired, but it’s a good tired.”
Our reading for today lays out very simply what is truly good and what God requires: to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. I invite you to think about those requirements for a few minutes:
Many of the Psalms are prayers. Our reading for today from Psalm 25 is a prayer appropriate in any season, but even more so this time of year, around the season of Lent.
These six verses from Proverbs are perhaps more relevant today than they were two and half millennia ago. Read them over carefully and think about the state of our society at present.
Revelation is and has been for centuries a troubling and difficult book for people to understand.
Jesus gave a number of imperatives or commands, but none more prominent that the command to love:
We live in a world in which changes occur so rapidly that we can’t begin to keep up with all of them.
The prophet Jeremiah’s words are for the people to give them hope in a dark time. He wants to assure the people that God will give them “a future with hope.”