ADVENT 2025 – DAY THREE

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness,    and evil cannot dwell with you.[PSALM 5:4] ADVENT DAILY OFFICE READINGSAM Psalm 5, 6; PM Psalm 10, 11Amos 3:1-11; 2 Pet. 1:12-21; Matt. 21:12-22 I do not listen to the news broadcasts in the morning. If I were to do so, I would be in a foul moodContinueContinue reading “ADVENT 2025 – DAY THREE”

NO KINGS

For the Lord is a great God,    and a great King above all gods.[Psalm 95:3] Every so often I have to step away from reading all the junk that passes for journalism these days. When I turn on my desktop and click on the browser I am at once bombarded with stories of every whichContinueContinue reading “NO KINGS”

ADVENT DAY SIXTEEN

“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done.”Luke 22:42 Monday, December 16, 2024Isaiah 8:16-9:12 Peter 1:1-11Luke 22:39-53 The above Gospel reading from Matthew, which takes place as Jesus is about to be arrested, seems an odd choice for Advent. Yet that is the way theContinueContinue reading “ADVENT DAY SIXTEEN”