Lent Week Three—Saturday Psalm 90 Jeremiah13:1-11 Romans 6:12-23 John 8:47-59 The readings today adhere to a theme that is consistent throughout this Lenten season, really throughout the Bible: how to live abundantly and defeat death. The lessons are familiar and pretty simple, yet we humans seem to have such a hard time accepting what God… Continue reading St Mark’s Lenten Thoughts: Saturday In The Third Week of Lent
Lent Week Three—Friday Psalm 91 Jeremiah 11:1-8, 14-20 Romans 6:1-11 John 8: 33-47 Today’s readings share two major threads—the first, that we are enslaved by sin and doomed to suffer and die in its thrall, the second, that God is our protector and that through Christ we are freed into everlasting life. Of the four… Continue reading St. Mark’s Lenten Thoughts: Friday In The Third Week of Lent
Lent Week Three—Thursday Psalm 42 Jeremiah 10:11-24 Romans 5:12-21 John 8:21-32 John 31 & 32, Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “if you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples: and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” WOW, Freedom, but freedom from… Continue reading St Mark’s Lenten Thoughts: Thursday in the Third Week of Lent
Lent Week Three—Wednesday Psalm 81 Jeremiah 8:18-9:6 Romans 5:1-11 John 8:12-20 Psalm 81 reminds Israel the love of the Lord brought them out of Egypt and protected them on their journey. Now Israel no longer responds to the Lord. She no longer hears Him. The psalmist recounts the Lord mourns Israel’s rejection. In Jeremiah 8:18-9:6,… Continue reading St Mark’s Lenten Thoughts: Wednesday in the Third Week of Lent
Lent Week Three—Tuesday Psalm 78:1-39 Jeremiah 7:21-34 Romans 4:13-25 John 7:37-52 Once upon a time, a long time ago, my eldest came skipping in from school to announce, “I’m God’s chosen Child”! Try to respond to that one. During the discussion of what she had learned in school that day I discovered Father Sykes had… Continue reading St Mark’s Lenten Thoughts, Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent
The Carpenter's Nail 