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...
by Lynda Hart | Mar 10, 2025
When we look at Jesus’ forty days and nights in the desert, we see that Satan tries to tempt Jesus via His ego. In other words, Satan wants Jesus to embrace His ego, rather than surrender it to the Father. The most basic meaning of the word ego is that it...
by Lynda Hart | Mar 4, 2025
Sometimes, without knowing it or even being aware of it, we can get locked into our own world and our particular situation. We can forget about or lose sight of the fact that we are part of a much bigger world. In our Gospel reading, Jesus takes some of his friends...
by Lynda Hart | Feb 24, 2025
In Exodus 19:4, God tells Moses, “You have seen for yourselves how I treated the Egyptians and how I bore you up on eagles’ wings and brought you here to myself.” It is one of two similar references in scripture; the other comes from the prophet Isaiah,...
