This week we look Luke 3:1-6, in which we meet John the Baptizer, who's mission it was to prepare people to receive Jesus. This is still our mission...

This week we look Luke 3:1-6, in which we meet John the Baptizer. We're told the Word of God came to him in the wilderness... when the Word of God comes to you, look out! God has work for us to do. 

This week we look Luke 3:1-6. Luke begins his story of Jesus' life, ministry, death and resurrection by rooting it in a specific time and place, among specific people. God's Word is always universal - yet we experience it specifically in our own ways. How has God's love been made real to you? 

This week we look Luke 21:25-36, as we begin the season of Advent. It always begins with foreboding, gloom and doom... yet we are the People of Good News. How might we live alert and ready for God's inbreaking life, here and now as well as then and later? 

Today we reflect on gratitude as a ground for joy - and my gratitude for this Water Daily community of readers and now listeners. 

And there is a poem by Denise Levertov. Happy Thanksgiving!

This week we look Luke 21:25-36, as we begin the season of Advent. Jesus invites his followers to be on guard against all that draws them away from God's love. How might we, like fencers, take position of defensive peacefulness that allows us to pivot toward that love?

This week we look Luke 21:25-36, as we begin the season of Advent. Jesus uses the changing of seasons as a metaphor for sign of the coming of God's reign. How do we see God coming into our lives.

This week we look at Luke 21:25-36, as we begin the season of Advent. Jesus talks about the way the very climate of this earth will portend the end... are we already seeing those signs?

This week we look at John 18:33-38, a strange conversation between a Roman governor and a prisoner named Jesus. Among the things they talk about is truth... what is truth for those who follow Christ? He said he was the truth...

This week we look at John 18:33-38, as we explore what kind of king Jesus was. He said he had come to "testify to the truth." That is a mission we share - knowing that He is Truth personified.