This week I caught up with a colleague over a cup of coffee. It was there she told the story of an Easter morning debacle unlike any I had ever heard: A rat had crawled into the oven and died sometime during lent. When the oven was turned on to heat up breakfast casseroles, the […]
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Easter • APR 5 Mystery Read 1 Corinthians 15:51–54. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! (v. 51a) When I talk to parents struggling to communicate the basics of faith to their children, I encourage them to learn to embrace a single word—mystery. So much about our faith is completely unknowable to human beings. How
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MON • MAR 30 Cleaning House Read Matthew 21:12–14. Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of he money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. (v. 12) Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling
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