Ways to Give
On Resurrection Easter Morning April 20, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis John 20:1-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and...
On the Love of God’s Lament April 13, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 118:28 The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar. Luke 19:29-42 When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place...
On Turning Towards April 6, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 43:18-19 Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the...
On Extravagant Grace March 30, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 32:1-2 Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Luke 15:1-3 and 11-32 Now all the...
On a Power That Changes Us March 2, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Exodus 34: 29-30 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been...
On a High and Holy Code of Ethics February 23, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 51:10-12 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy...
On a Radical Vision for Humankind February 16, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law...
On the Movement of God February 9, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 6:8 I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!” Luke 5:1-11 Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the...
On Good News and Bad News February 2, 2025 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 71: 1-3 In you, O LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress...
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...