Meditation
Resurrection
Read 1 Peter 1:3-9. I have a little red spot on my hand. It itches. It looks like a reaction to poison ivy, though I don’t think I’ve come into contact with any while holed up in my house during Read more…
Read 1 Peter 1:3-9. I have a little red spot on my hand. It itches. It looks like a reaction to poison ivy, though I don’t think I’ve come into contact with any while holed up in my house during Read more…
Read John 17. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. (John 17:13) Jesus wept. Jesus was troubled. Jesus mourned over Jerusalem. Read more…
Read 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10. For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with Read more…
Read Romans 8:5-11. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the Read more…
Read Psalm 23. The wilderness is an isolated, dry, trackless place. When you are led there by the Spirit, you don’t know where you are coming from or where you are going. You are separated from normal routines and familiar Read more…
Read Philippians 2:1-13. work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:12-13) The spirituality of the Read more…
Read John 3:1-17. Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and of Spirit. (John 3:5) What is this birth by water and by Spirit without which one cannot enter Read more…
Read Matthew 4:1-11. There are a number of traditional exercises intended to help us “crucify the flesh” or gain mastery over the passions, such as watching and praying, guarding the heart, meditating on Christ’s passion, meditating on scripture, discussing our Read more…
Read Galatians 5:16-25. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (Galatians 5:24) What do you do to “crucify the flesh”? Do you have a plan or method for overcoming “passions and Read more…
Read 1 Corinthians 3:1-9. And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were Read more…