Daily Lenten Devotions
March 5, 2026 The very first committee in recorded history was the Back to Egypt Committee in the Book of Exodus. When we are confronted with something difficult we often long nostalgically for the past. Even if it is not reasonable. They were slaves! Why would you want to go back to that?! Nostalgia is…
March 4, 2026 The basic outline of a story is that you need a plot and an antagonist and a protagonist. The antagonist tries to end the story. The protagonist tries to push the story into the future. The antagonist wants to end. The protagonist wants to continue. When we tell ourselves same-old-same-old, it’s no…
March 3, 2026 Carl Sandburg’s book of poetry, The People, Yes, published in 1936, is a collection of folk wisdom. Sandburg takes these nuggets of folk wisdom and sayings that he has gathered over the years and weaves poetry around them and celebrates the everyday people who do most of the living and loving and…
March 2, 2026 One of the better deer hunters I knew wrote on his bow: “Pick a spot; hit it!” Before every time I roll the ball in bowling I say to myself “1-2-3 Pendulum Pose watch the Ball cross the Spot.” A pastor in southwestern Wisconsin had a sign in the pulpit where only…
February 28, 2026 In the Gospel reading this weekend Nicodemus, a religious professional, goes to see Jesus. He comes at night because he doesn’t want any of his cohort to see them together. He is fascinated and troubled by Jesus’s righteousness and the fact that he spends so much time with the bad people rather…
February 27, 2026 René Descartes famously said: “Cogito ergo sum” – “I think, therefore, I am.” Often quoted. It says that our unique existence as human beings is because of our logic, our ability to think. Such a handy saying…..too bad it is patently false. An accepted facet of brain science is that certain parts…
February 26, 2026 Sometimes you just need to look away. Ever feel that way? You just need to look in a direction that you see no people, nothing human made, just nature? Psalm 121 begins with: “I turn my eyes to the hills. From where will my help come?” I think it is a common…
February 25, 2026 One of the biggest A-Ha moments in my life was taking Hebrew in college and learning that the name for God is untranslatable. The word for God in Hebrew is a verb form. We are hopelessly stuck in the nouns. A noun is a person, place or thing we were all taught. …
February 24, 2026 It was a common saying once whose meaning everyone understood. It was as common as Curiosity killed the cat and a penny saved is a penny earned. It was Remember Lot’s Wife. The story of Lot’s wife is early in Genesis when God decides Sodom and Gomorrah have to go but the…
When Elijah was about to die and be taken away he asked his young apprentice, Elisha, what he could do for him. Elisha said that he wanted a double share of Elijah’s spirit. Elijah said that it was a tough ask but if Elisha watched him be whisked away Elisha would be granted his request. …