by admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Lenten Devotional
John 2:1-12, Servant at the Wedding Banquet Like many people, this is one of my all time, favorite passages — the wedding at Cana. One of the reasons I love it is because the miracle done in this story is so different from Jesus’ other miracles (or ‘signs’ as...
by admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Lenten Devotional
Luke 4:38-39, Peter’s Mother-in-Law Rebuke — kind of a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t use it all that often; seems old fashion. For me, it is in the same category as the word ‘smite’. Is the past tense of smite – smote? We definitely don’t say that on a...
by admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Lenten Devotional
John 1:43-51, Nathanael Borrowed Prejudice – taking someone else’s prejudice and repeating it as our own without ever verifying its validity. I wonder how many times we do this without realizing it? When Nathanael speaks about Nazareth, I bet he hadn’t even been...
by admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Lenten Devotional
John 1:35-42, Andrew In Matthew, Mark and Luke’s gospels, we find Andrew with his brother Peter fishing in the Sea of Galilee. Jesus walks by and says those famous words, “Follow me!” Both brothers respond to the Jesus’ call but for some reason Peter is always...
by admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Lenten Devotional
Matthew 3:1-17, John the Baptist Drastic changes. I don’t know about you but I have never been one for drastic changes. They never seem to be sustainable and people respond to our drastic changes with drastic measures of their own. It also seems that drastic changes...
