On Promised Life March 26, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis John 11 selected verses Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother...
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On Seeing With New Sight
On Seeing With New Sight March 19, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis John 9: 1-41 As [Jesus] walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his...
On the Risks and Rewards of Crossing Boundaries
On the Risks and Rewards of Crossing Boundaries March 12, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis John 4: 5-26 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman...
On the Temptation of Power
On the Temptation of Power February 26, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 32: 2, 10-11 What joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty. Many are the torments of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds those who...
On Changes Within and Without
On Changes Within and Changes Without February 19, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Exodus 24:12-18 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for...
On How We Choose to Rerspond to Life
On How We Choose to Respond to Life February 12, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. Sirach 15:14-17 It was [the Lord] who created man in the beginning, and he left him in the power of...
On Jesus As Prophet
On Jesus as Prophet February 5, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 58:9-12 “Isn’t this the fast that I choose, to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the...
On Blessings Offered and Blessings Received
On Blessings Offered and Blessings Received January 29, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Micah 6: 6-8 With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with...
On What Moves Us
On What Moves Us January 22, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 27: 1, 4 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? One thing will I seek after: to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to live...
On One Defining Question
On One Defining Question January 15, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Psalm 40:8 "I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart." John 1: 35-39 The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed,...