by Lynda Hart | Apr 22, 2025
John’s account of Jesus’ resurrection appearance begins with tears: “Mary stood outside the tomb crying” (John 20:11). The greatest day of all time, the root of our joy as Christians, begins with grief. The tears of Good Friday and Holy Saturday were still wet on the...
by Lynda Hart | Apr 14, 2025
Palm Sunday is the celebration of the commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem the city of the King. What is the significance of the triumphal entry? The story of the triumphal entry is one of the few incidents in the life of Jesus which appears in...
by Lynda Hart | Apr 7, 2025
Mary shows her love for God in a scandalously bold and confident display of affection in pouring out her heart as she mourns what Jesus will soon endure. Mary has heard Jesus’s teachings and his warnings about the path he must travel. Mary weeps at the sacrifice of...
by Lynda Hart | Mar 31, 2025
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, Luke 15:11-32, Jesus tells the familiar parable of the prodigal son. As I think about it, the father must have felt heartbroken and distraught when the younger son requested to obtain a share of his father’s inheritance. Typically,...
by Lynda Hart | Mar 24, 2025
“Have no anxiety about anything,” Paul writes to the Philippians. Yeah right, Paul, no problem. As much as I admire Paul, who was no stranger to anxiety, I’ve never found that particular bit of advice very helpful. Anxiety, it seems, is a constant in our...
by Lynda Hart | Mar 17, 2025
As we celebrate “The Gifts of Women Sunday,” it’s easy for some to take the honored role of women leaders in the church for granted. I never have and never will. Some of the best women I know have been Presbyterian women. In particular, there have been four...
