Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here I Once Was Blind Fourth Sunday of Lent 1 Sam 16 · Eph 5 · John 9 We love to sing: “Amazing grace… I once was blind, but now I see.” The man who wrote that line — John Newton — once captained slave ships. He transported human beings like cargo. He read Scripture. He prayed. He believed in God. ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here A story about a story teller Saturday of the Third Week of Lent Hos 6:1–6 · Ps 51 · Lk 18:9–14 Imagine you are the one who has been cancelled. You think differently. You said the wrong thing. You belong to the wrong group. Nobody wants to sit with you. Nobody wants to defend you. When you enter a church, conversations slow down. Eyes turn. Whispers follow. ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here So Close — Yet Still Outside Friday of the Third Week of Lent Hos 14:2–10 · Ps 81 · Mk 12:28–34 “All you need is love.” You’ve heard that line before. The Beatles sang it. The world sang along. And yet, even they could not hold their unity together. Like the scribe in today’s Gospel, they were “not far from the Kingdom of God.” ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here Fully Alive Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Jer 7:23–28 · Ps 95 · Lk 11:14–23 We live in an age of endless analysis. We doubt. We critique. We deconstruct. We talk past each other. We scroll instead of listen. Everyone has an opinion. Few are willing to obey. Obedience sounds dangerous. It sounds like losing freedom. Rebellion feels heroic. ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here A Map to Become Fully Human Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Deut 4:1, 5–9 · Ps 147 · Mt 5:17–19 Everyone lives by a “text.” Maybe it’s your family’s expectations. Maybe it’s the voice of comparison. Maybe it’s an algorithm feeding you desires you didn’t choose. Maybe it’s a wound that keeps repeating the same line: “I’m not enough.” ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here Who Cancels the Debt? Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Dan 3; Ps 25; Matt 18:21–35 What would happen if banks suddenly cancelled debts? Credit cards erased. Student loans gone. Mortgages forgiven. Markets would shake. Economies would tremble. Some would celebrate. Some would panic. Now go further. What if wealthy nations cancelled the debts of poorer countries? Or if Africa, Asia, and Latin America demanded repayment for what was extracted during colonisation? ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here Beyond Borders: The Scandal of the Jordan Monday of the Third Week of Lent 2 Kings 5:1–15; Psalm 42–43; Luke 4:24–30 “As a deer longs for running streams…” The psalm speaks of thirst. Not curiosity. Not interest. Thirst. Naaman also thirsts — though he would never use that word. He is powerful, successful, respected. But he is diseased. And he does something strange. ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here When You Are Tired of Being Thirsty Third Sunday of Lent John 4:5–42 She comes to the well at noon. No one comes at noon. It is too hot. Too exposed. Too visible. But she prefers the heat to the eyes of the town. Five relationships. One more that is not really a relationship. People talk. She carries a jar. She carries a story. ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here When You Think It’s Too Late Saturday of the Second Week of Lent Micah 7 · Psalm 103 · Luke 15 Have you ever felt that you went too far? That you crossed a line. That you wasted something important. That going back would be awkward — maybe impossible. Jesus tells a story about a young man who felt exactly that. ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Readings Here When Betrayal Becomes a Turning Point Friday of the Second Week of Lent Genesis 37 · Psalm 105 · Matthew 21:33–43 Joseph was seventeen when his life collapsed. He was his father’s favorite. He had big dreams. He talked too much about them. His brothers hated him. One day they grabbed him, threw him into a pit, and sold him as a slave. ...