Lent 2020

On Saturdays, our prayers will be from those who have had great influence on our faith and our world. Elisabeth Elliot is known as a missionary, an author, a speaker, and one of the most influential Christian women of the twentieth century. She was born…

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. In a day and age before cell phones. . .I went to work on a normal day.  After completing several morning meetings, very normal, I found myself driving back to…

Matthew 6:12 Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.  Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness is clear, painfully simple, and seems to be directly related to our prayer life.  Two authors who have been especially influential in my spiritual development over the…

Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven To most of you this is going to come across as weird, maybe even unbelievable. I’m ok with that. Regardless, I want you to consider what I’ve learned about…

Matthew 6: 9b Hallowed Be Your Name Hallowed As a mother of four small(ish) children, there is not a lot of ‘hallowed’ space in our house. Literally almost none. There is nothing sacrosanct. Nothing we aren’t willing to sacrifice on the altar of sanity. Maybe…

Oops! We accidentially published day five YESTERDAY, which was a Sunday. The 40 days of Lent do not include Sundays. So, we invite you to use today to catch up on any blogs you may have missed last week and spend a little time in…

Matthew 6:9a “Pray then like this:  ‘Our Father in heaven...’” Jesus taught us to begin our prayers, “Our Father…”  Such a personal title.  Not Lord. Not King. Father.  To be able to call God our Father is an intimate privilege, but it can also be…

On Saturdays, our prayers will be from those who have had great influence on our faith and our world. Desmond Tutu Today's prayer is by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, adapted from an original prayer by Sir Francis Drake. Bishop Tutu (born October 7, 1931) is…

Matthew 6.5-8 “When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get.  But when you pray,…

Luke 11:1  One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”    I planned my 7th-grade ski trip outfit very carefully. I wanted to…