This week, Christ’s gifts abound! This week I celebrate Christ’s gift of freedom won for me through His loving sacrifice, His death, His resurrection. As Paul reminds us, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1). Daily, I remind myself of just how much the LORD desires that I be free.   Jesus set me free. He set you free. He gave His life for us. We can accept His gift a

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text:   Acts 3:1-8 Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, at the ninth hour. And a certain man who had been lame from his mother’s womb had been carried daily and laid at the gate of the temple which was called Beautiful to beg for alms from those who entered the temple. When he saw Peter and John approach the temple, he asked for alms. Peter, looking intently upon him with John, said, “Look at us.” And the lame man look

On Easter Sunday, when several of the family had gathered, I announced that I needed their help with a chore. I explained that the snowplow had hit our rock bed by the drive this past winter and driven several rocks into our yard. I needed help gathering them so the spring mower didn’t launch them at my neighbor’s house and do damage. I was amused by the response to my plea for help.   The grandkids in their twenties just nodded and walked that way. The oldest and middle teen

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text:   Acts 2: 1a, 14a, 36-41 And on the day of Pentecost, Peter, standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said to them: “Let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God made that same Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.” When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”   Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the n