March 18, 2019 DAILY READING Romans 4:1-2This weekend’s reading: Mark 14:66-72 FIELD NOTES In verses 6-8 of today’s reading in Romans, God’s blessing belongs not to those who perfectly obey the law, but to those who in faith accept God’s free gift of forgiveness and grace. This Lenten season, I have been seeking a path of…

March 16, 2019 DAILY READING 1 John 2:1-6This weekend’s reading: Mark 14:43-52 FIELD NOTESTish Harrison Warren has written a delightful book, Liturgy of the Ordinary, in which she invites us to experience sacramental moments throughout our day. Warren reminds us that there is no real separation between secular and sacred…life is a wholeness not to be…

March 15, 2019 DAILY READING 1 John 2:1-6This weekend’s reading: Mark 14:43-52 FIELD NOTES“There are two enormously encouraging truths for us to remember,” [Bishop] Job said. “One, God is with us. God continues to woo us, seek us out, love us, speak to us, enable us and lead us into the future. Second, it has been…

March 14, 2019 DAILY READING 1 John 2:1-6This weekend’s reading: Mark 14:43-52 FIELD NOTES Following these three simple rules; do no harm, do good, and staying in love “…is not what many of us have been doing, so to adopt this way is a radical shift in our lifestyle…It is a radical departure from our regular…

March 13, 2019 DAILY READING 1 John 2:1-6This weekend’s reading: Mark 14:43-52 FIELD NOTESNow that we have quieted our ways of doing harm [a bit tongue in cheek, no pun intended], let’s consider a life focused on doing good.  Wesley says,  “Do all the good you can; By all the means you can; In all the…

March 12, 2019 DAILY READING 1 John 2:1-6This weekend’s reading: Mark 14:43-52 FIELD NOTESDo No Harm. It is simple, uncomplicated. Even a child can understand what it means, and it is applicable to everyone at every stage of life.” [Rueben Job, Three Simple Rules, p.21] And, of course, we do not start the day with a…

March 11, 2019 DAILY READING 1 John 2:1-6This weekend’s reading: Mark 14:43-52 FIELD NOTES “If someone claims, ‘I know him well!’ but doesn’t keep his commandments, he’s obviously a liar. His life doesn’t match his words. But the one who keeps God’s word is the person in whom we see God’s mature love. This is the…

March 9, 2019 DAILY READING John 12:27-36This weekend’s reading: Mark 15:21-24 FIELD NOTES“While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.” On the first day of creation, God created light and then separated the light from the dark.  There’s an old Jewish Midrash saying that goes, “and the…