Saturday, April 10, 2021 Katie Snipes Lancaster Scripture: Jeremiah 30:1−2 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.” Spiritual Practice: Journaling There is something powerful in writing down [...]
Friday, April 9, 2021 Katie Snipes Lancaster Scripture: Psalm 23 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Spiritual Practice: Labyrinth Prayer Whether you’ve been to the labyrinth in the church front yard, or to the stone labyrinth at [...]
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Thursday, April 8, 2021 Katie Snipes Lancaster Scripture: Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Spiritual Practice: Community This year we discovered the in/tangible ways in which church is a community, even when we cannot gather together. I saw the way you cared for one another in tender ways, reaching [...]
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Katie Snipes LancasterScripture: Psalm 119:103How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!Spiritual Practice: Lectio Divina (Holy Reading)Lectio divina or holy reading of scripture takes the pressure of you as an individual to “know” something, and allows you to just enter in. Lectio divina is a [...]
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Katie Snipes Lancaster Scripture: Hebrews 4:9-11 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest. Spiritual Practice: Sabbath Knowing the way lives are [...]
Monday, April 5, 2021 Katie Snipes Lancaster Scripture: Psalm 62:1 My soul finds rest in God alone. Spiritual Practice: Centering Prayer Centering prayer is a contemplative, wordless spiritual practice that asks us to quiet the mind and body and simply “be” in the presence of God. Set a timer. Take fifteen minutes. Be present. M. [...]
God of early April morning, you are Mystery of Love made Known, you call to us, you long for us, you make us whole: When we are visibly fractured, when we are unmoored, when we stumble, monochrome, held together by tears and sleepless nights, we gather at the tomb, awaiting the ordinary; the funeral [...]
Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021 Katie Snipes Lancaster Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to [...]
Spring Devotional from Rev. Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster The season of Easter extends from today (Easter Sunday) to Pentecost Sunday (May 23). It is a fifty day period that explores the mystery of Jesus’ post-resurrection realities. After the long season of Lent in which we examine our lives through the themes of repentance, [...]