Archive for June 2020

“We need to learn . . . that we can assist the least desirable people with tenderness, using the deepest Treasures of our being. In this way we can touch eternity.” Taken from “The Tao Te Ching and the Christian Way” by Joseph Petulla The question posed above of Jesus by the expert in the…

Jesus asked them, “Who do people say that I am?” . . .  And then He asked them, “Who do YOU say that I Am?”  And Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” Who Are you?  How would you answer that question?  Perhaps you would give a description based…

John 5 “Before God, with the people of God, we confess to our brokenness: To the ways we wound our lives, the lives of others, and the life of the world.”  (Taken from the Morning Service in the Iona Abbey worship book) “For a good person to recognize that it is more important to be…

“It is clear to me that God shows no partiality” Acts 10:34 There is no little irony in the fact that recent social unrest coincides with the Feast of Pentecost.  Pentecost, or the Feast of Weeks as it is called in the Old Testament, fell fifty days after the resurrection of Jesus; the day upon…