Pastoral Reflections

weekly blog by Pastor Steve

Verse for the week of March 7th:

No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone.  God is faithful, and he wil

l not let you

Verse for the week of February 28th:

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom then shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

(Psalm 27:1)

Verse for the week of February 21st:

So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD,

have given me. You shall set it down before the LORD you God

and bow down before the LORD your God.

Verse for the week of February 14th:

Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him

Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

  (Luke

Verse for the week of February 7th:

And one called to another and said:

‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of host; the whole earth is full of his glory.’

(Isaiah 6:3)

This verse is from the call narrative

Verse for the week of January 31st:

 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (I Corinthians 13:13)

When you hear this verse the first image that might go through your head is a wedding scene. The…

Verse for the week of January 24th:

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

(I Corinthians 12:12)

With this verse, St. Paul…

Verse for the week of January 17th:

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

  (I Corinthians 12:7)

 

 

This section of Paul’s letter to the

Verse for the week of January 10th:

O LORD, give strength to your people; give them, O LORD, the blessings of peace.

(Psalm 29:11)

This whole Psalm is a hymn of praise to God who is above all things and mightier than all of creation. …

Verse for the week of January 3rd:

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

(John 1:4)

Whenever I hear this verse, I think about the Christmas Eve Candlelight service.  The tradition that I have used for many…