Luke 1:5-25 “Notice what you notice.” Today it was “He will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.” When I think of the Holy Spirit’s activity in this world I often have Pentecost in mind or a few phrases in the Gospels of Jesus’ being “filled with the Spirit”. For …
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January 2 / Luke 1:1-4
Luke 1:1-4 “Notice what you notice.” I’m taking those words to heart this year, especially when we have really short readings like today. So my first “notice” today was “many”, as in “…many have written…” or “…many have compiled…”. I have always heard that Luke had copies of Mark and Matthew in front of him …
January 1 / John 1:1-18
John 1:1-18 Today we begin another journey, different than those roads we have taken in the past. Yesterday John suggested that our old RTB bus analogy falls short, that actually we are all on mopeds, traveling on our own, each guided differently than the others. We found John’s analogy both humorous and intriguing. But to …