Reading: Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV, The Message) "Divine Spark" by Hannah Garrity | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.orgThese daily devotionals were orginally written for Advent 2020. While the challeng...  Read More

Reading: Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV, The Message) These daily devotionals were orginally written for Advent 2020. While the challenges four years later are slightly different, the need for those who dream re...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 16 (NRSV, The Message); Daniel 4:19-27 (NRSV, The Message); Colossians 2:6-15 (NRSV, The Message) At first Daniel, who had been renamed Belteshazzar in Babylon, was ups...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 17-21 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 16:19-31 (NRSV, The Message) With divisiveness--and anxiety about that divisiveness--at an all-time high...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 6-10 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 8:1-5 (NRSV, The Message) Compassion grows when we are able to know ourselves and one another on a ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 1-9 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 7:9-17 (NRSV, The Message) The word "kindness" originally developed from a root word that meant "fam...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 90:12-17 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 5:1-21 (NRSV, The Message); Hebrews 3:7-19 (NRSV, The Message) The word "kindness" originally developed from a root word that ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Jeremiah 3:6-14 (NRSV, The Message); Matthew 5:27-36 (NRSV, The Message) The "purple space" is where we cultivate kindness, compassion, humilit...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 24:1-5 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 7:10-16 (NRSV, The Message) The Golden Rule in scripture challenges us to engage in conve...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 22:13-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 (NRSV, The Message) The Golden Rule in scripture challenges us to engage in conve...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 8 (NRSV, The Message); Genesis 2:18-24 (NRSV, The Message); Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 10:2-16 (NRSV, The Message) Today we begin a 5 week series o...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 11 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Kings 5:13-18 (NRSV, The Message); Ephesians 5:21-6:9 (NRSV, The Message) King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy nu...  Read More