For our prayerful consideration today — A Passion for Justice — and for the focus for our actions today.

For our prayerful consideration today — Selfless Service — and for the focus for our actions today.

For our prayerful consideration today — Compassionate Action — and for the focus for our actions today.

For our prayerful consideration today — Inclusive Hospitality — and for the focus for our actions today.

For our prayerful consideration today — Extravagant Forgiveness — and for the focus for our actions today.

For our prayerful consideration today — Lavish Generosity — and for the focus for our actions today.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution. No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

For our prayerful consideration today — Radical Love — and for the focus for our actions today.

For a long time I’ve been bothered that we let one part of Christ’s Holy Church corner the market on Acts 2. We let them walk out the door with the very word that names that day. At least they didn’t get away with The Holy Spirit. Just the words Pentecost and Pentecostal. There at…

A friend asked me something a while ago, and as part of my response the chorus from an old Steppenwolf album surfaced from somewhere. Written by John Kay and Nick St. Nicholas, here are the lyrics in their entirety — Your eyes are moist, you scream and shoutAs though you were a man possessedFrom deep…