Green Pastures Devotions

Uchi deshi: Apprenticing to a master craftsman - 4.5.25 05.04.2025 6:59 ↓

Uchi deshi : Apprenticing to a master craftsman

Kingdom point: more than applause - 4.4.25 04.04.2025 7:36 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.28-29 MSG

Kingdom point: work these words into your life - 4.3.25 03.04.2025 7:13 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.24-27 MSG

Kingdom point: the path, not the password - 4.2.25 02.04.2025 5:51 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.21-23 MSG

Kingdom point: watch who you’re watching - 4.1.25 01.04.2025 6:48 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.15-20 MSG

Kingdom Point: Practicing the Way 31.03.2025 8:26 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.13-14 MSG  

Keep dancing your prayers - 3.29.25 29.03.2025 3:28 ↓

Keep dancing your prayers

What love does: the fine art of giving & receiving - 3.28.25 28.03.2025 7:35 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.7-11 MSG

What love does: measured speech - 3.27.25 27.03.2025 7:41 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.6 MSG

What love does: offer a washcloth - 3.26.25 26.03.2025 7:04 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.3-5 MSG

What love does - 3.25.25 25.03.2025 7:53 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 7.1-2 MSG

Kingdom Principle: The Jesus Creed - 3.24.25 24.03.2025 7:19 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Mark 12.28-31, Matthew 7.12 MSG  

When Christ displaces worry - 3.22.25 22.03.2025 4:00 ↓

When Christ displaces worry

Yes, this is how the world works - 3.21.25 21.03.2025 7:57 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.34 MSG

This is not how the world works - 3.20.25 20.03.2025 6:49 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.30-33 MSG

The First Sermon - 3.19.25 19.03.2025 7:06 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.27-29 MSG

Careless in the Care of God - 3.18.25 18.03.2025 9:11 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.25-26 MSG

Kingdom Posture: Don’t Worry…Be Happy - 3.17.25 17.03.2025 6:42 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.25 MAV (Mike’s Amplified Version)  

Pray like this with hearts sincere - 3.15.25 15.03.2025 1:53 ↓

One more rendering of the Prayer from the Sermon this week – this one a poetic rendering – which means it’s meant to be heard, not merely read on the page. So, pray this aloud, perhaps pausing to reflect after each line, each stanza. 

Kingdom prayer: bring your good road to us - 3.14.25 14.03.2025 7:23 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.9-13 FNV (First Nations Version)

Make the ask - 3.13.25 13.03.2025 7:35 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.16-18 NTE (New Testament for Everyone)

Take a seat on the bench - 3.12.25 12.03.2025 7:16 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.9-13 MAV (Mike’s Authorized Version)

Take words, and bring them with you - 3.11.25 11.03.2025 7:24 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.9-13 MSG

After this manner therefore pray ye… 3.10.25 10.03.2025 7:41 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 6.9-13 KJV  

Master of Spiritual Life - 3.8.25 08.03.2025 5:03 ↓

To round out this week’s reflections on “kingdom practice” aka “spiritual disciplines” (giving, praying, fasting et al) let’s pause to hear and ponder the musings of Dallas Willard from his classic Spirit of the Disciplines, topped off with Eugene Peterson’s Message rendering of a defining Pauline word from Romans with regard to whatever array of “practices” in which we might engage. May these wor...