Category: Everyday Stewardship
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Everyday Stewardship / The Cost of Being a Christian
Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content…
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Everyday Stewardship / 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house arrived and said, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?” Disregarding the message that was reported, Jesus said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.” He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside except Peter, James,…
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Remembering Our Slain Brothers and Sisters in South Carolina
Whether the sun is shining or dark clouds hover above us, we must never fade. In the face of love or the face of hatred, we must never shrink. The world needs to change, but we who remain in Him must never change. http://gawker.com/report-dylann-roof-told-cops-he-almost-didn-t-go-throu-1712507964
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Everyday Stewardship / 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. Consequently, from now on we…
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For My Father
Since Father’s Day is this weekend, I wanted to remember my father by posting here an Everyday Stewardship reflection I wrote for All Souls Day this past year. He was larger than life when he was with us, but I am thinking he is still quite a character in the after-life as well. With Love,…
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Everyday Stewardship / Feast of Body and Blood of Jesus Christ (Corpus Christi)
While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which…
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God’s Gift of Leisure / Everyday Stewardship
Remember the Sabbath day—keep it holy. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work, either you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your work animal, or the resident alien within your…
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Everyday Stewardship (Most Holy Trinity 2015)
I collect smiley faces. The crown jewels of my collection are Harvey Ball autographed smileys and McCoy pottery smileys. When I started my collection, I looked for the McCoy symbol on each pottery piece, to verify it was a “real McCoy.” The stamp of the symbol told me that it had been made in the…
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Everyday Stewardship (Pentecost 2015)
My oldest son was having a tougher time than expected in his first year of college. In high school he expected to get A’s and be one of the smarter kids in the class. Now, he was at a school where everyone came from a similar experience in high school, and he found himself pretty…
Tracy Earl Welliver 