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April 6, 2021 DAILY READING Colossians 3:12-17 FIELD NOTES Because of Easter, we claim a new identity in the Risen Christ.  The Colossians, in this passage, are doing the same thing.  Our identity is no longer primarily in our careers or our roles in our families.  Our identity is in Christ.   I remember a story about a committee…

April 5, 2021 DAILY READING Exodus 14:10-31 FIELD NOTES What a glorious Easter we celebrated yesterday!  Christ has Risen!  Death has been conquered!  Glory to God! Amen! In these passages from Exodus, the Israelites were delivered from the spiritual death in Egypt where they were prevented from worshiping God and forced to work in slavery only to face…

April 3, 2021 By Steve Schaffer Both my wife, Marilyn, and I are preacher’s kids.  We’ve pretty much seen church stuff from both within and from without…a lot of good, for sure, but sometimes a little not so good.  When I began thinking about Lent again this year, my first (young man’s) impulse was “Oh, man!  Seen it,…

April 2, 2021 By Rev. Dietrich “Deech” Kirk, Executive Director of the Center for Youth Ministry Training DAILY READING Hebrews 10:16-25, Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9, John 18:1-19:42 I have always struggled with the name Good Friday.  Have you?  How can we call something good that seems to be so bad?   Some call it Black Friday which seems more…

April 1, 2021 By Bishop Joe Pennel DAILY READING John 13:1-7, 31-35 There was a good reason for foot washing in the time of Jesus. It was a sign of greeting and hospitality. Both feet were washed as a guest entered the home.  Life was different in the time of Jesus. There were no paved…

March 31, 2021 By Dr. Ray Kumalo, Pastor of Brentwood Methodist Church (South Africa) DAILY READING Mark 11:1-11 This past Sunday was Palm Sunday. Named so because of how Jesus’s triumphal entry to Jerusalem moved the crowds to recognize and honor him by laying down their cloths and Palm branches. That led the leaders of…