Meditations about Peter

We talk about our Sunday readings in our Tuesday staff meetings. Sometimes we also talk about the art we will use in the service bulletin. “What do you suggest?” someone asked me. I hadn’t given it much thought — no, that’s not quite right, I had not given it any...

For God So Loved the World

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… Do you recall a message, a sermon, that you still remember, that sometimes when you recall it you almost re-capture the feeling, the...

The Light of His Countenance

Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. Led them up a high mountain apart… Mountains, high places have always seemed special places, even holy places. Ireland has such a place, a holy mountain. Several years...

The Sign of Jonah

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and call out against it, “for their evil has come up before me. But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to...

Sarah Laughs

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, and say, Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything impossible for the Lord?…”   Prayer comes in different forms and at different times. At home we observe the custom of a table grace – maybe...