Loving God, at your table, all are welcome. Fill us with your love, so that we might welcome others, as you first welcomed us. Amen. Faithful God, you created and sustain all things. Create in us a desire to live simply  and in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in need. Amen

What is failure anyway? Reading Mark 14.66-72 While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came by. When she saw Peter warming himself, she stared at him and said, ‘You also were with Jesus, the man from Nazareth.’ But he denied it, saying, ‘I do not know or understand what you are talking about.’ And…

Good failure, bad failure Reading Jonah 3.3-4.5 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, ‘Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ And the people of Nineveh believed…

The long road from dust to glory Weekend after Ash Wednesday Reading Genesis 3.20-24 The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all who live. And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, ‘See, the man has become like one of us, knowing…

Living with Failure Reading Genesis 3.17-18 And to the man God said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, “You shall not eat of it”, cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it…