The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Epistle Passage – Wrestling and Grasping with Predestination and Inheritance of Faith
“I am speaking the truth in Christ–I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy...
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Carole Boshart
I am a ponderer by nature, and freely mix the spiritual and the pragmatic but always guided by the wisdom of the Spirit as sent by the Lord God and communicated through scripture. I am not sure how to describe my spiritual orientation. Part Anabaptist - that is where my roots are. But I have journeyed a long way from the church of my childhood. My faith life is a potpourri of most Christian denominations, with a little Judaism thrown in. My passion is to reach out to people where they are, wherever they are, and support them in their life and in this world, while readying them for the life and world to come.
The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Old Testament Passage – Wrestling and Grasping with Fate
I like hearing about a “good” struggle, when someone is up against it and prevails over staggering...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Psalm Passage – Praising the power of the Kingdom of Heaven & the Divine; how it moves us forward
“Your decrees are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.” ( Psalm 119:129) I really hoped the...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passage – Understanding the power of the Kingdom of Heaven & the Divine; how it moves one forward
“He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Epistle Passage – Getting the power & intercession to move forward
“. . but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words . . “
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Old Testament Passage – Getting the go-ahead to move forward
In the other Old Testament passage, Jacob is starting his seven years of labor for the hand in...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Psalm Passage – The Divine seeing clearly what there is in us to “harvest”
Preacher: “O LORD, you have searched me and known me”. Seeker: “You know when I sit down and when...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passage – The Divine reaping the harvest from the “ground”
“He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Epistle Passage – Holding your “ground”
“So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Old Testament Passage – Finding & Knowing Your “Place”
“Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed there for the...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Psalm Passage – Placing our lives back under the Divine
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105) After last week’s...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passage – Our societal lives seeded by the words of the Divine
“That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.” (Matthew 13:1) I’ve...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Epistle Passage – Our lives under Christ are seamless
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1) Paul has...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Old Testament Passage – The times they are disjointed
“These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, and...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Psalms Passage – Being Humble & Simply Praising . . . Through Pictures
“The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.” [Tide Rising...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passage – Being Humble & Simply Believing
“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces...
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