Forward Day By Day – March 14, 2020

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Some of us in more “advanced” parts of the world forget the deep mystery of the miraculous, especially when it comes to healings and exorcisms. Mark describes four exorcisms and refers to many more, showing us the ways Jesus points to the cosmic battle with Satan....

Forward Day By Day – March 13, 2020

Friday, March 13, 2020

Jesus is telling us parables about how faith is planted and grown, fed mysteriously with the light, soil, and water of God’s being. The disciples hear these parables and are a part of the inner circle that hears the secrets of the kingdom explained privately....

Pastoral Letter from Bishop Thompson Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thursday, March 12, 2020

To My Sisters and Brothers in Christ:  I write this letter as your chief pastor.  For the past several months our news feeds have been inundated with reports regarding the coronavirus, or COVID 19.  We have watched this disease spread from one country...

Forward Day By Day – March 12, 2020

Thursday, March 12, 2020

From the Archives: January 20, 1982A great deal of what passes for Evangelism in America is in fact Revival. The author of Hebrews would not think much of this. Here, the author expresses the conviction that rehearsing the ABC’s of Christi….(View this reading...

Bishop’s Lenten Book Study: Devotion to God. Devotion to America.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

This past Sunday’s gospel had to do with Nicodemus’ going to Jesus in the night.  Nicodemus is the patron saint for curiosity.  Several times he seeks Jesus because there is something this young rabbi Nicodemus wants/needs to know.  He is curious enough to risk his...

Forward Day By Day – March 11, 2020

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Parables present us with glimpses into the kingdom of God, where the ordinary of our lives throws light on the extraordinary. Jesus says that his disciples know the secret gift of the kingdom; they see it in his miracles, hear it in his teaching, and feel it in his...

Forward Day By Day – March 10, 2020

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Today we hear the scribes from Jerusalem mistake the Holy Spirit’s work in the life of Jesus as being demonic. The scribes recognize that Jesus must be drawing on great power to perform exorcisms but then gravely misidentify its source. Jesus does not behave as they...

Forward Day By Day – March 9, 2020

Monday, March 9, 2020

Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians is a letter of exhortation and pastoral counsel written in his apostolic authority and drawing attention to his example and conventional wisdom. He uses every way he can to talk to the proud Corinthians—reprimand, irony, even...