Lent

Focus Relax and clear your head. Listen for the voice of God. What is God saying to you today? Read Matthew 23:37-39 (NRSV) “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood […]

Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read Genesis 14:17-24 (NRSV) After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). And King Melchizedek of Salem […]

Focus Turn off your cell phone, TV, or radio. Listen to the silence that is around you. Listen for God to speak to you. Read Genesis 13:1-7 (NRSV) So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. Now Abram was very rich […]

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still, yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read Romans 10:8-13 (NRSV) But what does it say? “The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart.” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Luke 4:1-13 (NRSV) Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NRSV) For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Acts 7:30-34 (NRSV) “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. When Moses […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 (NRSV) You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress; […]

This is a sermon I preached at Bethel University Chapel during Lent in 2017. Scripture: John 8:1-11 Watch the video by TWOTP “Known By Love” http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/known-by-love What are you known for? If I were to ask your friends, enemies, and acquaintances who you are? What would they say? Our body is made up of trillions […]

“This is the kind of fast day I’m after:       to break the chains of injustice,       get rid of exploitation in the workplace,       free the oppressed,       cancel debts. What I’m interested in seeing you do is:       sharing your food with the hungry,       inviting the homeless poor into your homes,       putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad,       being […]