Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today is Reformation Day, commemorating Martin Luther delivering the 95 Theses on October 31, 1517, triggering a widespread rediscovery of the good news of salvation by faith alone, in Christ alone, by grace alone. “Post tenebris, lux!” After the darkness, light! May...
Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- LAMENTATIONS 2:2- 3:66 The prophet (most likely Jeremiah) laments the tragedy of Judah’s fall in 587 BC. During the siege of Jerusalem, conditions were so bleak that the starving people resorted to cannibalism (Lamentations...
Oct 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- LAMENTATIONS 1:1-2:19 The first words of chapters 1, 2, and 4 are “How?” It is a word of astonishing grief. The question is asked: How did this happen? How widespread is this disaster? How long will we bear this judgment? “How...
Oct 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today is the anniversary of John Eliot preaching the gospel to the Massachusett tribe gathered at Nonantum, (Newton, MA) on October 28, 1648, and the conversion of their leader from Musketequid, Waban, who established the Praying Indian Village of Natick. We finish...
Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- JEREMIAH 51:1-53 Babylon’s destruction is prophesied in Jeremiah 51. Many of these images are picked up by the Apostle John as he describes the destruction of a revived Babylon in the Book of Revelation (Rev 17-18). One image...
