by fkeene | May 22, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation Lastly, it’s all about the love. What we call the Last Supper is a devotion of love: Jesus’ washing his followers’ feet. The meal of bread and wine—consecrated into Jesus’ body and blood. His last few words to his friends, followed by a sad, last trip up...
by fkeene | May 8, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
Lydda–pictured 1954 Where Peter Raised Tabbitha from the Dead A Meditation It’s often exhilarating to do something risky, although I’m increasingly cranky about it. Just as a silly example, jaywalking has lost virtually all the allure it had when I was young and...
by fkeene | Apr 3, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A MEDITATION There God goes again: creating something new. Imagine God’s cheekiness. Well, many of us would like God to let up on his “new business.” Isaiah is correct, but we’ve gotten used to the world as we receive it. We have trouble keeping up with an evolving...
by fkeene | Apr 3, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A MEDITATION The truth of the Parable of the Return of the Prodigal Son is that it is in no way a commentary on our birth order in a family. For years, in a childish churlishness, I felt that Jesus got it wrong in this story because the judgmental elder brother got...
by fkeene | Apr 3, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A MEDITATION The account of Moses’ encountering God on Mt. Horeb in front of the burning bush is a crucial passage in the relationship between the Creator God and his people. This is absolutely a “go to” text in understanding God’s essential nature, God’s plan for us...
by fkeene | Mar 13, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation We can see aspects of this gospel played out on our news pages. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is playing the Jesus role, not moving himself to a place of safety. Putin is acting out Herod, the fox, always there, dangerous, and unhinged. The Pharisees in the...
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