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  During the next few weeks, this blog will be taken over by my daily devotions done at Timberlake Church (Disciples of Christ) during these weeks of pandemic and “sheltering at home.” March 31, 2020         The Spring … Continue reading →

Monday, June 18, I received a call from Dick Reaves just after noon about the death of his mother, Marie Reaves Grant, or Gramma Reaves as so many of us knew her. It’s been a busy week or I would … Continue reading →

It was 1976, and I had somehow had thrust upon me, at age 22 and armed with a brand-new BA degree, the adult leader’s position of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in North Carolina high school gathering. About a … Continue reading →

Stephen Stills’ first solo album, appropriately named “Stephen Stills,” contained songs that have become part of his concert repertoire, both solo and in various bands.  This little song’s title is more important to me than the song itself, but I … Continue reading →

It’s Holy Saturday. For Christians, we wait. But for the first followers of Jesus, the whole thing was over.  I’ve wondered how to recapture that.  So I go watch the news.  There it is! A total loss of hope.  Whether … Continue reading →

We are the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. Where are we, as those hands and feet? With starving children around the world? With refugees seeking home? With school children afraid of their places of education? With ethnic … Continue reading →

We had a joke about today when I was a kid; you probably did, too: how can it be both Monday and Thursday at the same time? Yeah, it wasn’t really funny, then, either, unless you were a third grade … Continue reading →

We’re almost there. Almost there, as Jesus prepares himself for the ultimate showdown with power, both the religious power of the Jews and the political power of the Romans. Almost there, as Jesus prepares himself for the continued cloud of … Continue reading →

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”  He said to him, “‘You shall love the … Continue reading →

Day 2: things are beginning to intensify for Jesus, his followers, the Jewish leaders, and the Romans. Romans? Surely they don’t come into the picture until late Thursday night, right? Come on folks, let’s not be unrealistic. If you are … Continue reading →