Green Pastures Devotions

Bouncing the Foulfellows and Wormtongues - 1.9.26 09.01.2026 6:35 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  2 John 7-8, 10-11 (FNV)

Kyra and her kids - 1.8.26 08.01.2026 6:32 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  2 John 1-6  (FNV)

The company love keeps - 1.7.26 07.01.2026 4:26 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  2 John 2-3 (FNV)

To the honored woman and her children - 1.6.26 06.01.2026 4:57 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  2 John 1-13 

Pivot to practice: community - 1.5.26 05.01.2026 7:29 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  2 John 1-2 (FNV)

God loves the lump of clay....1.3.26 03.01.2026 4:37 ↓

that we are, ..... not just what he could make of us. I came across this reflection on the baptism of Jesus by my friend Nadia – a reflection emphasizing the affirming love of the Father for the Son at his baptism before the Son had done any of the things....

Firing the clay - 1.2.26 02.01.2026 6:27 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 3.11-12 MSG

Shaping the clay - 1.1.26 01.01.2026 7:47 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Philippians 2.12-13 MSG 

Centering the clay - 12.31.25 31.12.2025 7:36 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Philippians 3.13-16 MSG 

Treading the clay - 12.30.25 30.12.2025 8:07 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Isaiah 41.25 & Acts 14.21-22 MSG 

I went to the potter’s house - 12.29.25 29.12.2025 7:32 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Jeremiah 18.1-6 MSG

Great is the Mystery of the God Story - 12.27.25 27.12.2025 2:30 ↓

In ancient epistle, penned to his son in the faith that would carry on this ever-expanding journey of faith, the Apostle Paul captured the grand sweep of the Grand Story of God in six poetic lines that I’ll render here first in Paul’s original Greek...

Waiting - 12.26.25 26.12.2025 7:57 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Hebrews 11.32-40 MSG 

Return - 12.25.25 25.12.2025 7:56 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  2 Kings 25.27-30; 2 Chronicles 36.22-23 MSG

Exile - 12.24.25 24.12.2025 8:21 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  2 Kings 17.6-15, 23 MSG 

Game of Thrones - 12.23.25 23.12.2025 8:03 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Kings 15.25-32 MSG 

We three kings of orient are - 12.22.25 22.12.2025 8:26 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Acts 13.17-22; 7.46-47 NLT

A Story Large Enough to hold All of Us - 12.20.25 20.12.2025 3:10 ↓

It is said that in Henry Cowell State Park there is a redwood tree upwards of 1600 feet tall into which you can climb and stand fully upright – the tree’s roots having grown to provide a doorway, complete with a small staircase leading down into the earth. It’s that big. Or so Justin Roberts and Scott Erickson tell us in their book In the Low: honest prayers for dark seasons – in which they see th...

Tales from the Backside - 12.19.25 19.12.2025 7:34 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Judges 21.23-25 MSG 

A Tale of Two Joshuas - 12.18.25 18.12.2025 8:43 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Joshua 7.15-17, 20-21 NLT

The backside of God - 12.17.25 17.12.2025 7:26 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Exodus 33.18-23 MSG 

In just such a time, Moses was born - 12.16.25 16.12.2025 7:21 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Acts 7.17-20 MSG 

The nameless man who saved the world - 12.15.25 15.12.2025 7:40 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 37.14-17 MSG

The nature of our Story - 12.13.25 13.12.2025 4:48 ↓

In their book Slow Theology: Eight Practices for Resilient Faith in a Turbulent World , theologians A.J. Swoboda and Nijay Gupta make the surprising connection between the discovery of Mustargen – what we now call chemotherapy which was developed by leveraging deadly Mustard Gas in the right doses to kill cancer and save lives – and the nature of the grand biblical Story:

The other Joseph story - 12.12.25 12.12.2025 6:54 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Acts 7.8-15 MSG