February 23-March 8, 2022
Today, I invite you to join in prayer for Ukraine, using a prayer provided Mennonite Central Committee (originally included in the 2017 Peace Prayers Packet) https://mcc.org/stories/crisis-ukraine Our loving God, As you look down on your children in Ukraine, we ask that you bring this military conflict to an end as quickly as possible. Change the […]
Read postFebruary 16-22, 2022
“Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors and see all the people.” I can still remember forming ‘the church’ with my intertwined hands, sitting on a pew in Emmanuel Mennonite Church in LaJunta, CO. And ‘seeing’ all the people as I gave my fingers each a name of a friend in […]
Read postFebruary 9-15, 2022
“I have no one…” These are the first words uttered by the man who’d been ill for 38 years in response to Jesus’ question: “Do you want to be made well?” As John 5 tells it, Jesus was in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate where there was a pool which had five porticoes. In those […]
Read postFebruary 1, 2022
I put all my hope in the Lord. He leaned down to me; he listened to my cry for help.He lifted me out of the pit of death, out of the mud and filth, and set my feet on solid rock. He steadied my legs.He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise for our God.Many people will learn […]
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