by Lynda Hart | Dec 27, 2024
Taking time for reflection is a critical practice. Reflection fosters learning, stimulates growth, calls for course corrections, identifies priorities and renews focus and energy. At the end of this crazy and challenging year, it is even more important to carve out...
by Lynda Hart | Dec 17, 2024
Our time of preparation has come to fruition! As we celebrate the birth of Our Lord, I invite you to pause for a moment and reflect in your heart. During this season of Advent what has challenged you? What has comforted you? As you think about this, allow me to ask...
by Lynda Hart | Dec 2, 2024
The expression “Maranatha!” was a key watchword and prayer among the early Christians. It is an Aramaic word which is a combination of two words “marana—tha” which literally mean “the Lord comes” or in the imperative case “Come, Lord!” Paul the Apostle used this...
by Lynda Hart | Nov 20, 2024
On the feast of Christ the King, we are called to acknowledge that Jesus is, in fact our King. It is one thing to say that he is our King because the song in Church we sang said that, or the preacher said that, or the Bible says that. Yes, faith does come by hearing....
by Lynda Hart | Oct 31, 2024
Traditionally, All Saints Day has had a couple of meanings. In the old days there was All Saints Day, which celebrated those Christians who had been singled out as exceptionally “saints” of the church—your Mother Theresa types, that sort of thing—followed the next day...
by Lynda Hart | Oct 28, 2024
John Knox is famous for his preaching, yet when a Protestant leader first exhorted Knox to take up preaching, Knox was frightened and wept openly in confusion. In his sermons, Knox typically spent half an hour calmly exegeting a biblical passage. Then as he applied...
