Monday, May 25th The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. –Galatians 5:22-23 On this Memorial Day, I am struck by the thought of how much talk we’re hearing during these days about the notion of freedom. The word “freedom” is…
Sunday, May 24th Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come…
Saturday, May 23rd If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have…
The Saint John’s Bible, John Frontispiece: The Word Made Flesh. Donald Jackson, 2002 Friday, May 22nd Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other…
The Saint John’s Bible, John Frontispiece: The Word Made Flesh. Donald Jackson, 2002 Thursday, May 21st Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters…
The Saint John’s Bible, John Frontispiece: The Word Made Flesh. Donald Jackson, 2002 Wednesday, May 20th (Editor’s Note: I’ve included the entire ninth chapter of John’s Gospel here, because the complete story of Jesus’ interaction with the blind man and the Pharisees is so fascinating.) As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth.…
“The church is not a building; the church is not a steeple; the church is not a resting place; the church is the people.” I learned this little verse as a child and taught it to my children, and, it seems, that it is truly valid today. The church is very present today although it…
The Saint John’s Bible, John Frontispiece: The Word Made Flesh. Donald Jackson, 2002 Tuesday, May 19th After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the…
The Saint John’s Bible, John Frontispiece: The Word Made Flesh. Donald Jackson, 2002 Tuesday, May 19th After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the…
I believe we seek community when we come together as a church body. One dictionary defines “community” as “a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals’’. We gather on Sundays looking for a refinement of the definition of our common goals that are grounded in the example…