Category Archives: Lent

Your Daily Lenten Devotional April 6, 2012 Into the Wilderness Good Friday: Who Holds the Future? The Wicked Tenants Mark 12:1-12 Some years ago 60 Minutes interviewed a newly elected member of the British Parliament from Belfast, Northern Ireland. What … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional April 4, 2012 Into the Wilderness Prodigals The Lost Son and the Father’s Love Luke 15:11-24 Neither Jesus nor Luke use the word prodigal in telling or recording this parable. It is a label the church … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional April 3, 2012 Into the Wilderness Until Recently, Dead! Read John 12:1-11. Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional
 April 2, 2012   Into the Wilderness You Can’t Handle the Truth 

Read John 18:19-24.

 Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. Jesus answered, “I have spoken openly to the … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional March 29, 2012 Into the Wilderness Mark 12.1-17; focused on 12.1-12

 Jesus began to speak to them with parables.

’Once upon a time,’ he began, ‘there was a man who planted a vineyard. He built a fence … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional March 28, 2012 Into the Wilderness Mark 11; focused on 11.12-25 “The next day, as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. From some distance away he saw a fig tree covered with leaves, and hoped … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional March 27, 2012 Into the Wilderness The Illusion of “Sacrifice” Hosea 6:1—6; Luke 18:9—14 Jesus himself quotes twice from this passage from Hosea in Matthew’s Gospel, both times to defend himself from the “holier than thou” … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional March 26, 2012 Into the Wilderness The Two Loves Are Not Separate Hosea 14:2–10; Mark 12:28–34 Our First Reading is the conclusion of the writings of the prophet Hosea. He taught an intimate, time-tried, and tender … Continue reading →

Your Daily Lenten Devotional March 23, 2012 Into the Wilderness Crucify Him! Unfortunately, it is certain that I am also one of that crowd that doesn’t give much thought to what happened. I, who am even able to write these … Continue reading →