I’ve always thought I’d make a terrible martyr. I just don’t think I could manage to be strong and centered while being hung up on a cross and stabbed to death with a lance like the Japanese Christians being honored today…. I’d probably be a total disgrace, sobbing and begging for mercy. I would betray all my beliefs, I am just sure of it.
Good news from Scotland!
Jeff Sharlet investigates life in Russia and the persecution of anyone the state believes support people of any orientation other than heterosexual.
The Rev. Cynthia Black who serves Morristown’s Morristown Green reports:
The Reverend David Sellery, Author, Resource Creator and Retreat Leader. Committed to a vocation that focuses on encountering God in the midst of everyday life,
“Many a living sleeper” —that’s us. That’s us before we see Christ. It’s Simeon before Mary and Joseph travel to the Temple with baby Jesus. It’s us before we realize we’re seeing the Messiah right now. Our hearts beat, but our eyes are closed.
Psalm 24, 29 (Morning) Psalm 8, 84 (Evening) Genesis 18:16-33 Galatians 5:13-25 Luke 2:22-40) The Luke reading reveals how prophetic words can come from unlikely
We are presented with something impossible and we laugh, thinking it must be a joke that someone would even suggest that we would be able to do something seemingly miraculous like having a baby in extreme old age or feeding all the hungry children of the world that already exist (or even just a few).