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Lenten Devotional Every now and then I experience what Steve Goyer terms a “God moment,” as I expect you do.  At the Presbytery meeting in January, I met Ricardo Green, the new pastor at Nueva Esperanza (New Hope) Presbyterian Church in Orange Park.  Our meeting led to a God moment for me.   Ricardo wasContinue reading “March 26, 2020”

Home-made Yogurt Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you,  even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.  -Jesus (Matthew 6:28b-29) I was sitting in my quiet office at RPC a few days ago. Bill Hoff was preaching the following SundayContinue reading “March 25, 2020”

My mother is in Assisted Living.  She is also under hospice care.  She is bed bound so she never leaves her small bedroom. She is extremely hard of hearing so she is unable to make any sense of a phone call.  She is still smart as a whip like you remember her, although at timesContinue reading “March 24, 2020”

Julian of Norwich, a 14th century Christian mystic, had a series of visions from God while gravely ill (she later recovered and recorded them). In one, she saw a tiny object like a hazelnut in her palm, and God told her it contained all that God had created. As she marveled at its smallness andContinue reading “March 23, 2020”

How Long? How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? –David, Psalm 4:2     I am the father of four kiddies. We proudly owned and used up two minivans through their growing-up years. We made trips in them. So you know that IContinue reading “March 22, 2020”

O Lord… We come before you now with heavy hearts full of so many emotions. We grieve the amount of people who are sick and the families who have lost loved ones. We feel powerless to help expand our hospitals to meet this crisis. We feel turmoil with the daily changes that the news brings.Continue reading “March 21, 2020”

Out of Control I don’t know about you, but I really like to feel in control. With all that has been developing over the last few weeks, I would imagine most of us feel like we are not in control of our own lives, much less what is happening around us. Meetings cancelled, work cancelled,Continue reading “March 20, 2020”

A Devotional for Lent The advent of the coronavirus causes me to wonder again at how much of the world exists outside our human awareness. It is not only our ignorance of the lives of billions of people, animals, plants, bacterial and viral life, and the inanimate elements who and which inhabit and comprise ourContinue reading “March 19, 2020”

Romans 8:38 – 39 from Eugene Peterson’s the Message: I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. When my knees shake and my stomach churns I findContinue reading “March 18, 2020”