by Lynda Hart | Aug 25, 2025
A woman is bent over. Maybe from osteoporosis? Maybe from an injury, stress or working too hard? It invariably happens to us all, especially as we get older. For those of us who’ve experienced this, don’t you love Jesus’s words about her, his language of being set...
by Lynda Hart | Aug 17, 2025
We have some passionate and disturbing words from Jesus today. First, he expresses his deep desire to cast fire on the earth. Second, Jesus expresses a longing for his “baptism” to be accomplished. Baptism here refers to his immersion in the terrible suffering and...
by Lynda Hart | Aug 11, 2025
The parable of the Rich Fool is a statement on greed. It points at how we can get caught up in what we own and what people have. It’s about possessions and how they take us over. Or how we react when we lack what we once had. We enjoy wealth but we have a mixed...
by Lynda Hart | Aug 4, 2025
I’m not the first person and I certainly won’t be the last to point out that the Lord’s Prayer is largely in the first-person plural. “Our Father… give us this day our daily bread… forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us… lead us not into...
by Lynda Hart | Jul 28, 2025
“Christmas in July (or as some call it, Half Christmas) has become such a cultural staple each year that you may not have even thought about who first dreamed up such a cheery, potentially cheesy, midsummer celebration. Well, as it turns out, per Country...
