There is much noise; there is much static; there are many siren voices in our world today that distract us from being people of God. To live a holy life, as a disciple of Jesus, requires discerning his voice. Amount the many tools for voice discernment as weekly worship in community and daily individual prayer/reflection. These are the basics that enable us to hear the voice of Jesus speaking to our heart of hearts. We neglect them at our own peril.
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Readings – Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; Psalm 1; I John 5: 9 – 13; John 17: 6-19 During this season of Easter our first readings each Sunday have been from the Book of Acts, the Acts of the Apostles. The selections have been out of sequence which can be a little confusing. Today we return to…
Readings –Genesis 29:15-28; Psalm 105:1-11, 45b; Romans 8: 26-39; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 Theodore Parker was a well-known and widely quoted New England pastor of the 19th c. In 1850 he wrote – I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot…
This is a question that pops into our minds from time to time. John, the Baptist, grew up in a Family of Faith. His mother was a descendant of Aaron, the brother of Moses. His father was a priest in the temple in Jerusalem. John lived in the wild and looked wild. Scripture tells us…
Six Parables of Jesus “Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth to speak in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.” …
Joseph, the Dreamer The first book of the Hebrew Scriptures is essentially a collection of stories. The book opens with the story of creation and ends with a very long story of how the descendants of Abraham ended up living in Egypt. The final 20 chapters of the Book of Genesis consist of a collection…
Today is traditionally called “Shepherd’s Sunday”. Our readings are – Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23, I Peter 2:19-25, and John 10:1-10. From the 23rd Psalm, we observe that a shepherd has three tools to care for the sheep, voice, staff, and rod. With the voice “he calls his own by name…the sheep know his voice”. The…