Father God, we thank you for a love so powerful that you sent your Son that we might have a light to show us a way out of the darkness of the prisons we create for ourselves. We thank you that you have not left us alone in cells of confusion and the hopelessness that…
So many things keep me from prayer, Lord… So many things, large and small, pull me in a dozen different directions and slowly, surely, my time for prayer slips to the bottom of my list of things to do and then I’m too tired or I forget to find a quiet place, a quiet time…
“I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”- Jesus Jesus tells a parable to a group of shepherds and disciples in which he makes a big statement. To paraphrase Jesus, one of the central reasons why he came was to give us…life. Real life. Abundant life. What does this abundance look like?…
February sees us entering the liturgical season of Lent. You may have started the month celebrating with parades, pirates and the Superbowl, but before the week is over the church will try to focus your thoughts on spiritual discovery and discipline. Lent is the period of about 6 weeks that comes before Easter, and it…
Co-Written by current students and Board of Trustee members at Union Presbyterian Seminary 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; my God, in whom I trust.” Because you have made the Lord your…
On Wednesday, February 10th, the church enters the season of Lent, a time for increasing our attention to practices of Christian faith as a way of nurturing and strengthening our faith. Chronologically, Lent takes the faithful on the journey from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. I think of it as a kind of Spring Training…
During last year’s noon Ash Wednesday service a four-old came to worship with her grandmother. When it came to the portion of the service where people began to come forward for the imposition of ashes and to hear the words, “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return” I began to hear another…