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A compelling devotional by Day1 host Peter Wallace, designed to help people of all ages connect meaningfully with God as revealed in the Psalms.
Topic Features About Beginnings
Where to Begin?
Mark 1:9-15
First Sunday in Lent - Year B
February 26, 2012
The Rev. Christopher Henry (PCUSA)For many years, each spring semester, the late Reynolds Price, professor of English at Duke University and noted novelist and poet, taught a small group seminar titled, simply, "The Gospels." It was consistently one of the most competitive classes in the curriculum during registration, with a waiting list that grew by the hour. The class centered on close readings of the gospels of Mark and John, which the course description venerated as "documents largely unprecedented in world literature." After studying these two gospels, students began the one assignment that the class required--an original gospel of 30-50 pages, based on the readings and discussion of the seminar. As you might imagine, students panicked. I had more than one friend who went without sleep night after night as the deadline approached! How can one possibly write an original gospel? What must be included and what can be left out? How do you convey the deep meaning of the life of Jesus in your own words? Where do you begin?
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As It Was in the Beginning
Genesis 1:1-5, Mark 1:4-11
Baptism of the Lord - 1st Sunday after Epiphany - Year B
January 08, 2012
The Rev. David Lewicki (PCUSA)Where did you begin? Where did your story--the story of you--begin?
Is it a birth story? Did you begin the night you were pressed upon by waves of fierce contractions, forcibly evicted from the dark womb to the light of this world?
Did you begin in a sweaty, lusty liaison between your parents (God forbid we think about that on a Sunday morning!), when your own unique mix of DNA was created?
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