Category: Evangelization
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Everyday Stewardship / Imitating Jesus
So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. Ephesians 5:1-2 Have you ever heard of Wolfgang Beltracchi? For decades he created forgeries of works from the most famous painters in history…
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Everyday Stewardship / Striving for Maturity
Therefore, let us leave behind the basic teaching about Christ and advance to maturity, without laying the foundation all over again: repentance from dead works and faith in God, instruction about baptisms* and laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And we shall do this, if only God permits. Hebrews 6:1-3…
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Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
In this blog, I am charged with keeping the main thing, the main thing, as are my guest bloggers. We reflect quite frequently on the process of conversation, everyday spirituality, and a stewardship way of life. There are many books and articles out there about parish engagement, rebuilding community, and creating a dynamic faith environment. But we…
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Getting your House in Order
My term finished last week and it has been a crazy week, trying to get the house in order before flying to France on vacation. It began with tidying and cleaning and then progressed. These last two days a company has been fitting new fascias and soffits to the outside of the house. The house…
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Everyday Stewardship / Tummies Full of Love
When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food…
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God Smiling Upon Us
Another characteristic of an everyday steward is that he/she is prayerful. It would seem that would be a given. Certainly any follower of Jesus is called to pray. However, this characteristic means more than whether or not one has a prayer life. Prayer is more than just communication between God and us. It is about…
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Sand Dollars and People
On a beach stroll during our annual trip to Georgia’s Jewel, Jekyll Island, we happened to catch the water at low tide. For those who like to find treasure this is the most opportune time! During high tide the sea’s treasure chest is carried to shore and tilted letting some of its most prized treasures…
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Everyday Stewardship / A Living Witness
He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to…
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What Are Days For?
Today I have travelled to Hull in East Yorkshire, some 150 miles North East of London, ready to work here tomorrow. It is a place I have never visited before – before arriving all I knew is that it had a fishing industry and when that declined in the 1970s, it became a place of…
Tracy Earl Welliver 