Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; — Ruth 1:16. As we travel on our Lenten journey Ruth’s famous words to her mother-in-law come to mind, and her loyalty to her family is worthy of a meditation or two. I have written a…
The Garden of Eden Revisited
During my morning meditation I had a weird thought. (Many of you probably think I have lots of weird thoughts.) Maybe Adam and Eve weren’t expelled from the garden of eden, but the garden was actually expanded to include the entire earth, and we as humans were charged to keep, till, and nurture God’s creation?…
A Letter of Paul To Philemon
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a sermon based on the Paul’s letter to Philemon. The letter is a mere twenty-five verses, and is a request from Paul to his friend Philemon to take back his runaway slave, Onesimus, and treat him as a “brother.” History doesn’t tell us how Philemon responds or whether Onesimus…
Without Him Not One Thing Came Into Being
All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. — John 1:3 The above passage is a wonderful beginning to a lenten meditation or prayer, for when we repeat John’s words we acknowledge that our being began with God. So are the magnificent sunrises, a sunset across a lake…
And Who Is My Neighbor?
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “and who is my neighbor.” — Luke 10:29 Of course it had to be a lawyer who questions Jesus about what he must do to inherit eternal life, and after correctly answering his own question about loving your neighbor as yourself must act lawyerly and ask Jesus the…