Jesus said to them, “The things of Caesar give back to Caesar, and the things of God to God.” Mark 12:17 Today’s gospel from Mark tells us that Jesus recognized the hypocrisy in the question to him of the Pharisees and Herodians. This encounter is reminiscent of the dynamic in a lecture in an…[read more]
The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior. He will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love. He will sing joyfully because of you, as one sings at festivals. Zephaniah 3:17-18 And how does this happen to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?…[read more]
“Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the Gospel of God’s grace.” Acts 20:24 “Now this is eternal life, that they should know you , the only true God, and the one…[read more]
“Do you now believe? The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered each to your own home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. I have said this to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you…[read more]
“Amen, amen I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” John 16: 20 Later in my mother’s life, but before she had descended into the worst of her dementia, she and I had a conversation about the death of her…[read more]
“The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. He made from one…[read more]
Then the jailer brought out Paul and Silas and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you and your household will be saved.” Acts 16:30-1 “But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts. But I tell you the truth it is…[read more]
One of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, from the city of Thyatira, worshiper of God, listened and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying. After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in…[read more]
I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learned from my Father. You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit…[read more]
Why, then, are you now putting God to the test by placing on the shoulders of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear? On the contrary, we believe that we are saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they.” Acts 15:10-11…[read more]
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