By Luke Gascho, director of the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College THIS WEEK’S THEME: The Lord is your keeper DEVOTIONAL: Opening the lid on the beehive was always an awe-inspiring experience. After gently sending a few wisps of smoke into the entrance of the hive, I could open the box and peer … Keep reading »
March 11: Eating bread
By Sarah Rody, a senior mathematics major from Sterling, Ohio DEVOTIONAL: I have recently started to take the time to bake my own bread, and there are few things I like more than the feel of the bread dough as I knead it, or the smell of the hot fresh bread as it comes out … Keep reading »
March 10: Lenten mules and beatitudes
By James E. Brenneman, president DEVOTIONAL: It’s not every day that someone says to me, “Don’t be such a mule!” or some even more blunt version. And yet, here, in Scripture, the Psalmist says just that (v. 9). Got my attention! And so I sit up and listen. Just what is it that I do … Keep reading »
March 9: Becoming human
By Bob Yoder, campus pastor WELCOME: Welcome to Goshen College’s online devotional series for the 2011 Lenten season! “Becoming Human: Called and Shaped by Jesus” is this year’s theme taken from Mennonite Church USA worship resources. Lent is the season of the church year in which we focus particular attention on foundational questions of our … Keep reading »
Welcome to Goshen College Lenten Devotions 2011: Beginning March 9
What does it mean for us to be the created and recreated images of God? How may we become authentically human? Goshen College again offers an online resource to help believers make time and space in their hearts and minds to reflect during the season of Lent. Beginning March 9 (Ash Wednesday) and culminating on April … Keep reading »