David Sandel

Thursday, January 23, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from January 23, 2022 … Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart Three readings for Sunday plus a psalm. Three stanzas of a poem, plus a...

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Memorial of Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three questions May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts, that we may know what is the hope that belongs to our call. From Plough Magazine, a story...

Monday, January 20, 2025 Martin Luther King Day in USA (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Community first! He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness. No one takes this “priesthood” upon himself but only when called by God. Just down...

Sunday, January 19, 2025 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Winnie The Lord delights in you and makes your land his spouse. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. Steve Garnaas-Holmes wrote about this God of ours, “Nothing is...

Saturday, January 18, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Approach the throne Let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace in times of trouble. Ten days after the Los Angeles fires burst open and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, the fires continue....

Friday, January 17, 2025 Memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Rise Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your mat and walk?’ Jesus did not hesitate to call the earth that God created “holy,” although...

Thursday, January 16, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Partners Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord our God, our Maker. For he is our God. Men and women have been praying this way for centuries, and we are still. Let us kneel before...

Wednesday, January 15, 2025  (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Body work The children share in blood and Flesh. This sounds worse than it is. Usually we call it flesh and blood. We each carry a body around from the moment we’re born till the day we die. Not all of...

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Light Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit. “Quiet! Come out of him,” and the spirit came out. Jesus’ fame spread through Galilee. While we were at the Vineyard Church in Urbana we sometimes encountered men and women who were occupied with the...