Loving Yourself

Loving Yourself

by | Oct 21, 2020 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections

By Hugh Farquhar The Gospel Reading prescribed in the Lectionary for next Sunday is Matthew 22:34-40. It contains some of Jesus’ most memorable words, including: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Whitney Houston had a big hit that stayed on the charts for...
Loving Yourself

Just Enough of God

by | Oct 16, 2020 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections

by Hugh Farquhar The Revised Common Lectionary Reading from the Hebrew Scripture on Sunday is Exodus 33:12-23. The concluding verse is striking: “You shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.” Years ago, when the older two of our four children were small, we...
Inside Prayer

Inside Prayer

by | Feb 12, 2020 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections

Inside Prayer “Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and went up the mountain to pray.” I was fortunate to visit the place where, by tradition, this story may have taken place, Mount Tabor in Galilee. We didn’t walk up the mountain. We drove. As we wound our...
[John] So Loved

[John] So Loved

by | Dec 28, 2018 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”  — John 3:16 Our first hint of incarnation comes in the creation story. God makes all this stuff out of darkness: a fire...
[Luke] Imagine with Me

[Luke] Imagine with Me

by | Oct 23, 2018 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections

And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.” – Luke 5:19 NKJV Come, imagine with me!  What would it feel like in...
[Mark] All in a Day

[Mark] All in a Day

by | Oct 22, 2018 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections

“The disciples gathered around Jesus, and told him all they had done and taught.”  – Mark 6:30 What a day. The disciples return from their mission of teaching and curing the sick. They gather around Jesus ‘telling him all they had done and taught.’ Jesus...
[Zechariah] Night Visions

[Zechariah] Night Visions

by | Sep 12, 2018 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections

“In the night I saw a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. Then I said, “What are these, my lord?” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they...