A Study of the Church: The People of God in Context – Day 5

This morning’s Daily Lectionary Hebrew Scripture (Old Testament) reading is Ecclesiastes 5:1-5. Let us come with reverence and humility as we hear the Word of the Lord … “Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the...

A Study of the Church: The People of God in Context – Day 3

The church – the people – are one unified body of believers in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. The church – the people – celebrate the diversity of the body – the body does not function without all its parts … “… but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in...

A Study of the Church: The People of God in Context – Day 2

Day 2 – The church … Who are we – the church? We are followers of Jesus Christ. What does it mean to follow Jesus – that is – to walk where Jesus walked, to serve those whom he served, to heal those whom he healed, to stand beside those whom he stood beside, to...

A Study of the Church: The People of God in Context

Before the declaration of the 2020 COVID-19 Global Pandemic, I began a daily writing on Ash Wednesday (February 26, 2020) alongside a Lenten Devotion: Lent and Easter: Wisdom of Henri M. Nouwen. Following the declaration by the World Health Organization on March 11,...