Green Pastures Devotions

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 

Thin places for the ragamuffins - 12.11.25 11.12.2025 6:39 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 28.16-19 MSG

Ragamuffin Gospel - 11.10.25 10.12.2025 7:45 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 27.34-36 NLT 

Room in the midst of famine - 12.9.25 09.12.2025 7:13 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 26.1, 12, 19-22 NLT 

Living with Laughter: it’s no joke - 12.8.25 08.12.2025 6:38 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 25.19-23 MSG

We are creatures who think in stories - 12.6.25 06.12.2025 3:44 ↓

From Winn Griffin in his book God’s Epic Adventure: Changing our Culture by the Story We Live and Tell…

All the families of the earth will be blessed - 12.5.25 05.12.2025 7:24 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 12.1-3 MSG 

Laughter as a way of life - 12.4.25 04.12.2025 7:12 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 17.15 - 19 MSG

Impossible child - 12.3.25 03.12.2025 6:52 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 4.17-18 MSG 

A New Hope - 12.2.25 02.12.2025 7:03 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Hebrews 11.8-12 MSG 

Exit the dragon – enter the Holy Night -12.1.25 01.12.2025 8:34 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 3.1; 2 Corinthians 11.3; Romans 5.12-14 MSG

The brave things in the old tales and songs - 11.29.25 29.11.2025 7:41 ↓

If you’re new to this Green Pastures devotional flow, the Saturday entry is usually a bit of a change-up in pace and content. Generally there’s no daily reading and no question prodding personal reflection, only a reading or perhaps a poem or some pertinent musing that serves as something of the capstone to the week’s content – or at least a worthy topping on it all like that proverbial icing on t...

Original glory - 11.28.25 28.11.2025 7:04 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Psalm 8.1-9 MSG 

In the beginning - 11.27.25 27.11.2025 8:47 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Genesis 1.1 

Remember our history and find the Primer - 11.26.25 26.11.2025 9:09 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Corinthians 10.1, 11-12 MSG 

Three interwoven narrative threads - 11.25.25 25.11.2025 7:24 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Acts 20.7-12 MSG