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Genesis 32:19-3019 “According to this word speak to Esau when you find him; 20 and you will say, ‘Look,  your servant Jacob is drawing near behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will atone his face with  the gifts that are going before him, and after this I will see his face, for perhaps he  will welcome my […]

When I was in college, I went to my Uncle Tom’s place in Oklahoma, right near a big lake. Now I had not done a lot of fishing, mainly just watched my Dad do catch and release in streams. But now, we were actually going to go out on a boat and spend all day […]

Inspired by Genesis 2:1-3 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)Thus, the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day, God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So, God blessed the seventh day and […]

Inspired by Genesis 1:24-31And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all […]

Inspired by Genesis 1:20-23 (NRSV)And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of […]

Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let luminaries be in the firmament of the heaven for illumination of  the land come into being and rule the days and the nights and make a separation in  the midst of the day and in the midst of the night. And let them be for a sign and for  seasons and for […]

Inspired by Genesis 1: 9-13Three days into witnessing the unfolding of Creation and, if we are paying attention, a pattern emerges that holds the potential to shift our understanding of this first chapter in Genesis. Arriving to the third day of the creative process, we notice the loyalty to a liturgical pattern in which word […]

Inspired by Genesis 1: 6-8 “Some scientists think life first took hold in the rocks. But from day one, life was an escape artist, always wanting to break free to conquer new worlds. Even the great big oceans couldn’t contain it” (Ann Druyan, Cosmos).  Last week we witnessed the dawn of creation with the rising of our […]

Inspired by Genesis 1: 1-5 It is fascinating that the biblical Creation Story begins with this Great Ordering; a segregation of the world into spaces of light and spaces of darkness bound by containers of felt experience that we, ourselves, have organized into a concept called “time.”  About this Great Ordering, today’s commentator writes that, “inasmuch […]

From John 7:37-39, Acts 2:1-21, sans vv. 9-11a.(Taken from the ACCS). “In the theological presentation of Luke, we first saw the reconstitution of the Twelve, and thus the new Israel (Acts 1:15–26), and the giving of the new law at a new Sinai at Pentecost follows this. Then, in Peter’s speech to the old Israel, gathered […]