Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire.  Amen. Today’s Gospel reading is the second-to-last week in a nearly six-month chronological walk through several chapters of Luke.  Next Sunday we will celebrate Christ the King, and the end of this liturgical year.  The Sunday after that the season…

Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. There is nothing we can do to make God love us more, and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less[1] – and because of this we are called to live by a…