Lent
Lord’s Prayer: Day 2 – March 17
If Jesus’s reference to our Father in heaven was in contrast to Caesar as father of the empire, then the contrast continues with Jesus’s reference to the Kingdom of heaven.
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There is one particular honor given by the Roman Senate of old that was not granted very often.
Continue ReadingPrayer – March 15
After the 2011 tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan, one man took an unusual step to help him work through his grief over his cousin’s death.
Continue ReadingSabbath – March 14
For this Sabbath day of rest, rather than dig into more Scripture, allow the Holy Spirit to remind you of what God spoke into your soul this past week. Reread the passages for this week and allow the words to penetrate into the deepest parts of you.
Continue ReadingEye for Eye – March 13
Earlier in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus called those who worked for peace as blessed, but here he includes a short primer on what that could look like.
Continue ReadingVows – March 12
At the beginning of the movie Hook, Peter Banning, played by Robin Williams, tries to squeeze in one more meeting before a London trip with his family by scheduling it the same morning of his son’s last baseball game of the season.
Continue ReadingDivorce – March 11
In a 1963 speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.”
Continue ReadingAdultery – March 10
In 2003, Aron Ralston committed the cardinal sin for solo mountaineering: he didn’t tell anyone where he was going or how long he planned to be away. This omission resulted in him being trapped in a canyon for five days, his hand and wrist pinned between a boulder and the canyon wall. He was only able to escape and find rescue after he amputated his arm. Ralston has said that if he hadn’t cut off his own arm he would have died in the canyon.
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