Ways to Give
On What Lies at the Center January 26th, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 55:7-11 My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your...
On Finding Fullness in the Incomplete January 12, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 43: 1 “But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.’” Luke...
On One Holy Refugee January 5, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Matthew chapter 2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star...
On What’s in a Name December 29, 2024 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth brings forth its shoots and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations. John 1: 1-5...
On the Eternal Message of Christmas December 22, 2024 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 9: 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness on them light has shined. Luke 2: 1-20 In those days a decree went out from...
On Magnifying the Divine December 15, 2024 Traceymay Kalvaitis Micah 5:2-5 But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days....
On Preparing the Way December 8, 2024 Traceymay Kalvaitis Malachi 3:1-3 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming,...
On Jesus’s Paradigm of Power November 24, 2024 Traceymay Kalvaitis 2 Samuel 23:3-4 The God of Israel has spoken, the Rock of Israel has said to me: One who rules over people justly, ruling in the fear of God, is like the light of morning, like the sun rising on a...
On Endings and Beginnings November 17, 2024 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 16: 7-11 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad...
On Give and Take November 10, 2024 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 146 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long. Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no...