Roman Roads Roman Roads: Church Closed? Read: Malachi 1:6-14 Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors… (Malachi 1:10a, NRSV). There is something almost obscene about churches sitting empty during Holy Week. This…
Roman Roads Roman Roads: Peace, Be Still Read: Mark 4:35-41 He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, Be still!” (Mathew 4:39, NRSV). Sometimes my brain feels like a bug in…
Roman Roads Roman Roads: How Lonely Sits the City The Pantheon: originally a place of prayer to all the gods, now a Christian church. Read: Lamentations 1:1-4 How lonely sits the city that once was full of people….…
Roman Roads Roman Roads: Yesterday’s Problems Read: Matthew 6:25-34 So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today (Matthew 6:34, NRSV). “Yesterday’s problems are…
Faithful Foreigners Faithful Foreigners: On Books and Their Covers Read: Acts 8:26-40 Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to…
Faithful Foreigners Faithful Foreigners: Fear, Faith, & Foreigners Read: Mark 15:33-39 Now when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!” (Mark…
Faithful Foreigners Faithful Foreigners: Dust & Ashes Read: Job 42:1-6 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and…
Faithful Foreigners Faithful Foreigners: Harbona and Company Read: Esther 6:14-7:10 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Look, the very gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the…
Faithful Foreigners Faithful Foreigners: A Fish Named Grace Read: Jonah 1 But the LORD provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights…Then the…
Faithful Foreigners Faithful Foreigners: Rahab the Resourceful Read: Joshua 2 Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and entered the…
