Praise to the Lord of my salvation;
salvation is of Christ the Lord!
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Fifth week of Lent
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Fourth week of Lent
Use meditation as a time to become aware of God’s presence. Find a quiet spot, set a timer for five minutes (or more), close your eyes, and pay attention to your breath. Remember that God is as close to you as the air in your lungs.
Third Week of Lent
This week, the hymn sings of the splendor of creation, and our scripture reminds Job and us that God’s fingerprints are on everything we see.
Second Week of Lent
In the second chapter of Acts, a Spirit-filled Peter stands before the crowd and delivers a scintillating summary of the Christian faith. On this week when the hymn leads us to focus on the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, the traditional Jesus Prayer can provide an answer to the question Peter stirred up in his listeners: “What shall we do?”
First week of Lent
One of the marvels of the Trinity is how God is fundamentally about relationship, so much so that God is in relationship with God’s own self: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Ash Wednesday
Before we start using the hymn itself as our devotional piece on Sunday, a little background knowledge on it that will enrich your encounter. A Lenten examen will invite you to think about this Lenten road and how you want to walk it.
How to use this devotional
This devotional offers inspiration for the Lenten journey, exploring an ancient hymn, “I Bind Unto Myself Today,” written by St. Patrick. Each verse of the hymn offers a focus for a week of Lent, and inspires ways to pray, things from which to fast, and how we might give.
Palm/Passion Sunday: THE BIG ONE
Preaching text: Mark 14:1-15:47 Welcome to one of the most confused day of the church year! Are we happy? Are we cheering Hosanna? Are we nailing Jesus to the cross? Are we doing both? How? Why? A quick explanation for the uninitiated: throughout much of church history, this day is Palm Sunday, and the focusContinue reading “Palm/Passion Sunday: THE BIG ONE”
Lent 5: Written on Our Hearts
Preaching text: Jeremiah 31:31-34 I have this problem. It might be unique to clergy who have been steeped in a low anthropology (a fancy way of saying that humanity’s basic moral orientation is toward the crappy). Whenever anyone says something like, “You deserve it” or “But she’s such a good person” or “There are goodContinue reading “Lent 5: Written on Our Hearts”