THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK This week the focus is on the Great Commandment. We know Jesus’ words so well: “‘And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all [...]

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Although it does not remove the scars of Job's suffering - he would always carry the grief of his dead children, and the emotional residue of his sickness and humiliation - his story ends with [...]

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK We live in a world where the quest for greatness has become almost obsessive. Reality television offers the promise of fame and wealth to anyone willing to put themselves "out there". Everything – from corporations [...]

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Two words come together in the readings from the Revised Common Lectionary this week: compassion and suffering. You may read about Job's feeling of being abandoned by God this Sunday, or possibly the call of [...]

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK This Sunday, if one of the Lectionary readings was used in your worship, it may have struck you how concerned God is about relationships. This week the readings ranged from God's creation of men and [...]

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK We love to make faith about who is "in" and who is "out". We love to believe that we know how God works, and that we can easily discern when something is "of God" or [...]