Forward Day By Day – May 3, 2020

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Pepper doesn’t like the gate. Our daughter’s horse is full of personality, doting at times and persnickety at others, but for some reason, the gate into the arena always spooks her. Our daughter competes in rodeos, racing on Pepper around barrels and po….(View...

Forward Day By Day – May 2, 2020

Saturday, May 2, 2020

This passage sounds a bit like an IKEA instruction manual. Put the poles in slots A and B, the ark of the covenant on Panel Q, slide the mercy seat over rods #245 and #246. Every time I read this section of Exodus, I wonder about God’s purposes in the...

Forward Day By Day – May 1, 2020

Friday, May 1, 2020

We Christians are not always kind to one another. And when we are in the trenches, knee-deep in a capital campaign or mud up to our shoulders in program shifts or cultural change, we are often not our best selves. Somehow the snide comments and sharp elbows land a...

Forward Day By Day – April 30, 2020

Thursday, April 30, 2020

From the Archives: December 30, 1996“What is original sin?” the twelve-year-old asked her grandfather. He replied, “It is something we all have in common. It is one of the things that hold us together.” ….(View this reading and more resources for prayer at Daily...

Share Your COVID-19 Pandemic Story

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Share your COVID-19 experience with us. How has your faith sustained you through this difficult time? Where have you found God? Tell us about your experience with virtual worship? Were you able to reach out to serve others? Scroll down to view a few more writing...

Forward Day By Day – April 29, 2020

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

I hung on a cross next to his. Me, a criminal; him, an innocent man…and so much more. My punishment was deserved; his was not. He was hanging there, pierced by nails and thorns, pierced by the unseen wound of disbelief. But he forgave them…and me. The la….(View...

Forward Day By Day – April 28, 2020

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

I walk across the meadow into my sanctuary in the woods until I find the glade of ancient trees that rise and spread like a cathedral. Birds strike up a chorus, and I feel a mighty “Hallelujah!” welling up inside me. Looking up between the tops of the t….(View...

Forward Day By Day – April 27, 2020

Monday, April 27, 2020

Close your eyes for a minute and look at John the Baptist. A single dark fin cutting through the ocean of sand and scrub brush, sleepless eyes fixed on the horizon like a desert shark. Between bursts of angry shouting, he speaks about a messianic tide that will lift...

Forward Day By Day – April 26, 2020

Sunday, April 26, 2020

I will always think of the road to Emmaus as the freeway to every corner of the universe. At the moment when Jesus traveled down its dusty turnings, there was no limit to where it could go. All the barriers and barricades are gone; the way to eternity is open....

Forward Day By Day – April 25, 2020

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Weeds are paved over because they aren’t flowers—worthless because they lack blooms. Yet even the weeds feel the electricity of God’s love in their roots and so believe their way by faith up through the cracks in the sidewalk. Weeds push up toward the ….(View...