by Janet Keefe Maybe spring is a little shy. Reluctant, perhaps, before trees suddenly grow fat with green leaves and tiny flower buds burst into explosions of color and texture. Tentative, possibly knowing the inconsistency of New England winters, life pauses hesitantly, for a couple of weeks after Easter. It Read more…
By Sam McKeen But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes Read more…
By Rebecca Murzin And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will Read more…
By Janet Keefe It was Palm Sunday, over 2000 years ago. Imagine you were there. People were waving palm branches exuberantly and placing their cloaks on the ground reverently before Jesus, who was riding a donkey. If you were there sometime before Palm Sunday, you might have sat on a Read more…
By Sam McKeen A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” – John 13:34-35 (ESV) Read more…
By Rebecca Murzin Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Psalm 103:1 We should be continually praising God, because He is worthy of all our praise. He is all powerful, all knowing, the creator of the universe, the King of Kings, Read more…
By Janet Keefe A perspective of John 4:4-42 It was midday when she left the house, and it was oppressively hot outside. The sun was high, and was blazingly bright; the heat scorched the ground and she felt it radiating on her skin. Although the temperature was blistering, everyone else Read more…
By Sam McKeen “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.Already you are clean because of the word that I Read more…
By Rebecca Murzin So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” John 11:3-4 Often when people Read more…
By Janet Keefe I have a small problem with the way a scripture passage is typically interpreted. In Luke 10, verses 38-42 we read about Martha and Mary. Martha is very distracted, as she is preparing to entertain Jesus while Mary is sitting contentedly at Jesus’ feet, listening to him, Read more…