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For Your Weekend: Ask, Seek, Knock … and Don’t Stop!

July 26, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 11:1–13
Some of my favorite memories of my children when they were toddlers were bedtime prayer time. “Okay, bedtime, prayer time!” I’d yell to get them scampering upstairs and into the bedtime routine. Baths, silliness, stories, and more silliness would often ensue. [...]

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For Your Weekend: When You Feel Unseen in Your Serving

July 19, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 10:38–42
“Lord, do you not care?”
I read the words that spilled out of Martha’s mouth directed toward Jesus from this week’s gospel, and within my heart, a profound understanding resonated. 
Girl, preach. (That was me, not the Lord.)
If I weren’t already familiar with this passage, [...]

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For Your Weekend: We’ve Been Robbed

July 12, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 10:25–37
“I can’t talk now, I am integrating chickens.” 
Add this to my list of “texts I never thought I’d send.” When the recipient shared that she had no idea what I was talking about, I explained that we were introducing our new flock of chickens to the old and that this required constant supervision because, [...]

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For Your Weekend: Let Your Joy Be Rooted in Heaven

July 5, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 10:1–12,17–20
Have you ever felt like your productivity defines your worth? As if your ability to accomplish and succeed and check all the boxes makes you more worthy, more lovable? 
You're not alone. So many of us struggle with it. [...]

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For Your Weekend: When the World Wears You Down

June 28, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 16:13–19
Normally, at this point in the year, I don’t mind the blissful chaos of summer. I welcome the relief that comes with the ease of the season. But as I write this, I am far from relieved. I’m worn thin and worn out—not necessarily from the daily chores, [...]

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For Your Weekend: When You Consume More Guacamole than Jesus

June 21, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 9:11–17
Life lately has felt like feeding the five thousand. In other words, it has felt impossible. Appliances and people are breaking all around me, the weather has not been cooperating with outdoor events, and writing has felt like sprinting through quicksand. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Invited into the Mystery

June 14, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 16:12–15
While working on my master's in theology, I took a course on the Trinity. In it, we reflected upon and discussed Andrei Rublev’s icon of the Trinity, one that would later be gifted to us after the completion of our first year, [...]

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For Your Weekend: Open Wide the Doors

June 7, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 20:19–23
On this feast of Pentecost, we celebrate the birthday of our Church—a moment of fire and boldness, where fear gave way to proclamation, and locked doors burst open with the Spirit’s rush of movement. Yet before tongues of fire danced above the apostles' heads, [...]

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For Your Weekend: Why Do We Need the Holy Spirit?

May 31, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 24:46–53
Jesus disappointed me. I asked Him to do one thing—just one! And did He do it? Nope! In fact, He did the opposite. I thought He was trustworthy, a God who kept His promises. I was beginning to have my doubts. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Need Peace? Start Here

May 24, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 14:23–29
Of all the people who have shaped me most profoundly, my grandmother, my mom's mom, stands at the top of the list. We called her Grandma Joan, or more affectionately, Joanie. For as long as I can remember, [...]

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