Psalm 107:1-5,7,8,43; Hosea 11: 1-11 A smitten God I watched with great admiration how the youth group with the help of April, Ben and Wade ran the vacation Bible School program. As you have heard, they built a… Read More
Hosea 1: 6-10; Luke 11: 11,12, 13 The good and bad in all of us In the Masterpiece Master mystery episode of a few weeks ago, young Inspector Endeavour Morse of the Oxford England police stands on the… Read More
Amos: 7:7.8; Luke 10: 29-35 The truth about helping Jesus tells the well known story of the Good Samaritan in response to the question from a lawyer:” who is my neighbor?” Today we ask a related question and… Read More
2 Kings 5: 8-14; Galatians 6:9,10 Our therapeutic task Martin Luther King is known for his saying: “The arc of history bends slowly, but it bends toward justice.” What he meant to say that we don’t change society… Read More
2 Kings 2: 9, 10; Galatians 5: 13-18 Spirit and Love It has always struck me how Americans love measurement facts. The biggest river west of the Mississippi. The tallest building east of there. We like to quantify… Read More
Isaiah 5:7,8; Luke 12: 55-59 Do we understand our times? It has taken me longer than usual to distill something from the Bible passages that prescribed or our worship today. In Isaiah you have the problem that it… Read More
Posted: August 29, 2013 by Aart
Reflection August 11
Isaiah1:18,19 ; Hebrews 11: 1-3; 8.9,10 Revisiting Faith Today our lectionary brings us the beautiful texts In Hebrews about faith. It contains one of the most stunning lines ever written about a subject that have ever been written. … Read More