When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to hisplace. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. “You call me‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord andTeacher, have washed your feet, you also should...
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a timeto die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted – Ecclesiastes 3:1-2Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in...
“Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can,In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can,As long as ever you can.” ― John WesleyAnd let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season...
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.– Proverbs 20:29 Dear Sisters and Brothers, As my family has been preparing for our reunion vacation next week on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan,my brother Brock (a Johns Hopkins Fellow in Geriatric Medicine) sent everyone some...
The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them,“Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, andthey had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desolate place...
Dear Sisters and Brothers, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”– Sextus Propertius, Roman Poet (50-15 BC) If absence make the heart grow fonder, in light of our long pandemic absence from our church family,I’m sure that your hearts are by now quite fond for one another. I recently read about a study* that gives scientific...
