Preparing for Sunday: What is Truth?

The question what is truth is an interesting one. It is interesting because depending on your point of view the truth might change. Is truth relative or is truth objective? Two individuals may hold drastically different points of view on an issue, both claiming that...

Praying for the World

If you have been watching the news, reading the paper or scrolling through social media you know that the past few days have been difficult ones. With attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad we are reminded that all of the world is embroiled in conflict. Japan...

Ode to Remembrance

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. – Robert Laurence Binyon

Three Widows

What does it mean to give to the church? What does an offering look like? Today we will consider giving and offerings from the unlikely source of three widows. Text: Mark 12: 38-44 & Ruth 3: 1-5; 4: 13-17 Three Widows...

Preparing for Sunday: Make an Offering

Widows are the main characters of our Bible passages this Sunday. In the Book of Ruth we have Naomi and Ruth. Mark’s gospel lesson deals with the Widow’s Offering. Last week when we considered Ruth we acknowledged that she was an unlikely individual to be...

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