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By guest blogger, Lorienne Schwenk Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 Psalm 119:9-16 Ben has some other things to take his time, so I offered to share my musings on the readings for a little while. On this Fifth Sunday of Lent, our last before Holy Week, we hear the voice of Jeremiah. Let me quote a little, “The days are surely coming, says the Lord. I will put my law within them and I will write it on their…

By Ben Nucum Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Psalm 22:22-30 I decided to do something different this week and be very open with my own trials and sufferings with Christ and within Christ. I suffer from bipolar disorder type 2, and I often suffer from both hypomanic (elevated) moods and depressive moods, and the past couple weeks I have been suffering from a particularly potent depressive episode. I wasn’t sure if I was going to write this blog…

Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 Psalm 25:1-9 The images of baptism in the water and of the covenant (which includes the baptismal covenant) permeate through this week’s texts. The Genesis reading takes place after Noah and his family survive the deluge, and they have arrived on dry land. God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons: “I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood,…