Sep 16, 2024 | Sights and Insights
You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forward I tell you new things, hidden things that you have not known. – Isaiah 48:6 (NRSVUE) I was listening to an interview with the drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of the Philadelphia...
Sep 9, 2024 | Sights and Insights
The Lord says: Act justly and do what is righteous, because my salvation is coming soon, and my righteousness will be revealed. Happy is the one who does this, the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not making it impure, and avoids doing any evil. –...
Sep 2, 2024 | Sights and Insights
The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places and make your bones strong,and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose...
Aug 18, 2024 | Sights and Insights
Jeremiah spoke next, publicly addressing the officials before the crowd: “God sent me to preach against both this Temple and city everything that’s been reported to you. So do something about it! Change the way you’re living, change your behavior. Listen obediently to...
Aug 12, 2024 | Sights and Insights
After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. – Revelation 7:9 (NRSVUE) One...
Jul 8, 2024 | Sights and Insights
Jesus told the people another story: What will a woman do if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them? Won’t she light a lamp, sweep the floor, and look carefully until she finds it? Then she will call in her friends and neighbors and say,...
