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How do we experience God’s mercy? Paul testifies that he received mercy even though he was the foremost of all sinners. The word mercy presupposes an acknowledgment of unworthiness on the...
Read MoreOne day I lost my earrings. My daughter had bought them for me with her first salary, so you can imagine how precious they are to me. I thought I had...
Read MoreWhat has Jesus called you to do? How has the overflowing grace and love of God enfolded you and empowered you, especially in times when you have made poor choices out...
Read MoreHow many times do we forget to “call upon the Lord”? Seeking after God is not an easy task for contemporary Christians, especially when there are so many distractions. What would...
Read MoreThis week’s reading starts with a feeling of the Creator’s agitation and the image of creation being dismantled. The disappointment with human beings and our unfaithfulness reaches the point of an...
Read MoreToday we return to Luke 14, where Jesus counsels his followers to give up their idolatries if they would be his disciples. Now we note the hardest part of this call:...
Read MoreIn this familiar story, Paul sends Onesimus, who is probably an enslaved man who has run away, back to his master, Philemon. Paul appeals to Philemon not to enslave Onesimus but...
Read MoreJeremiah sees God at work in our lives and invites us to respond. God’s presence draws us into deep communion with God and the loving purposes that infuse all of creation....
Read MoreIn this striking analogy, Jeremiah pictures God as the potter, fashioning vessels out of clay. This would be a very familiar image to Jeremiah’s readers. The clay in this imagery represents...
Read MoreThe psalmist continues to express, in the most intimate terms, how totally God knows us and has formed us. These words do not compel us to conclude that God literally made...
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