Good morning everyone! We have made it to Wednesday! Hope your middle of the week is going well so far! Today’s scripture: Mark 11:15-19The Message 15-17 They arrived at Jerusalem. Immediately on entering the Temple Jesus started throwing out everyone who had set up shop there, buying and selling. He kicked over the tables of the…
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Courtney McHill has been in ministry for over 10 years and is travelling the world in search of pilgrimage and new life. What is it to be theological in different spaces? What are we searching for? What will we find about God, our world and ourselves?
Spring Cleaning
Good morning all! Today’s scripture: 2 Chronicles 29:12-19 (Message) 12-17 The Levites stood at attention. They presented themselves and their brothers, consecrated themselves, and set to work cleaning up The Temple of God as the king had directed—as God directed! The priests started from the inside and worked out; they emptied the place of the accumulation of defiling junk—pagan rubbish that…
You are the temple
Good morning everyone! Today’s scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:10-16 (NRSV) 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that…
What’s your story?
Good morning everyone! Since I am at a women in leadership conference this weekend called Convergence, we have a guest blogger this morning. Jeff Peterson is one of my dearest friends in McMinnville. He is a sociology professor at Linfield and has a passion for integrating students into their surroundings. He is also a man…
So confused!
Good morning all! You made it to Friday! Nicely done….now, here is some scripture. Today’s scripture: Acts 7:30-34 (NRSV) 30 “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached…
The cloud
Good morning everyone! We are almost to Friday! Woohoo! You can do it, dear reader! Today’s scripture: Exodus 19:7-9a (NRSV) 7 So Moses came, summoned the elders of the people, and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him. 8 The people all answered as one: “Everything that the Lord has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words…
Bless this dwelling
Good morning all! Hope you are well! Today’s scripture: Jeremiah 30:18-22 (NRSV) Thus says the Lord: I am going to restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt upon its mound, and the citadel set on its rightful site. 19 Out of them shall come thanksgiving,…
In the unseen
Good morning everyone! I am writing to you from Estacada where I am at a Young Adult Clergy Retreat! I am surrounded by woods and lots of colleagues. So I may be a bit brief…. Today’s scripture: Hebrews 11:1-3 (NRSV) 11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 Indeed, by…
A little laughter
Good morning everyone! Last night I was worried it wouldn’t all get done. I am going to a healthy boundaries workshop today in Vancouver and will end up in Estacada for a young clergy retreat that will be for a few days. Then I am home for a day and a half then head out…
Who do you say that I am?
Good morning everyone! I want to make a shout out to one of my most fabulous sisters in law, Madeleine! Happy happy birthday to a sister that I am so lucky to have! Today’s scripture: Mark 8:27-3(NRSV) 27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked…
Living in Violet 