Light it Up! Lent 4: Epistle, Ephesians 5:8-14 It isn’t often that all three lectionary readings in one day have a common thread. This Sunday they do. Light, Sight, Change and Clear Vision. We can find elements in all our stops this week. In our epistle reading the great apostle points...
“While it is Day” Lent 4: Gospel, John 9:1-41 When are you usually busy? When do you do the stuff of life? For most of us, apart from third-shifters and the occasional night owl, we work while the sun is up. Or at least before all its residual light is extinguished for the day. Why...
Four “Servant Songs” mark the later chapters of Isaiah, 42:1-9; 49:1-13; 50:4-11 and 52:13-53:12. It was 700 years before the birth of the Savior that Isaiah penned these verses highlighting the person and mission of a virgin-born King as Messiah of Israel. Each is a bit different in...
