Green Pastures Devotions

I wonder what sort of a tale we’ve fallen into - 11.24.25 24.11.2025 6:20 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Psalm 78.1-7 MSG

Bonhoeffer’s reflection: Who am I? - 11.22.25 22.11.2025 3:16 ↓

Nine weeks ago, we began this journey of Practicing the Way with a bit of self-reflection – thirty-eight questions worth of it, to be precise – so it only seems appropriate, in keeping with our devotional flow this week – to conclude our time with this journey in this devotional space with some classic self-reflection courtesy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who penned this self-reflective musing while in...

Two symbiotic rhythms: solitude and community - 11.21.25 21.11.2025 6:57 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Ecclesiastes 4.7-12 MSG 

From wish dream to divine reality - 11.20.25 20.11.2025 7:56 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Acts 2.46-47 MSG 

Confronting the wish dream of community - 11.19.25 19.11.2025 7:53 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Acts 2.43-45 MSG 

The Christian belongs not to the cloistered life - 11.18.25 18.11.2025 7:42 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Acts 2.41-42 MSG 

Life Together - 11.17.25 17.11.2025 5:31 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Psalm 133 NLT

One writer’s rule of life - 11.15.25 15.11.2025 7:06 ↓

It’s one of my regular reads – at least every year or two – and since there’s now an Audible edition read by the author himself, it’s a regular listen: Stephen King’s autobiographical sharing of his craft he entitled On Writing* . Classic. Think of it as one successful writer’s rule of life for aspiring writers…

My personal habit stacking (before I knew what that was) - 11.14.25 14.11.2025 7:21 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Timothy 4.12-16 MSG 

Habit Stacking - 11.13.25 13.11.2025 7:29 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Corinthians 3.9-15 MSG 

A concrete plan of action - 11.12.25 12.11.2025 7:07 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 15.19-22 MSG 

Implementation Intention - 11.11.25 11.11.2025 7:15 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Proverbs 21.5 

Sit down and figure the cost - 11.10.25 10.11.2025 6:14 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Luke 14.28-30 MSG

I need to talk… 11.8.25 08.11.2025 5:55 ↓

As we pursue the practice of “confessing your sins to one another so that you may be healed.” It’s Matthew McConaughey’s experience at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, narrated in his book Greenlights * offered here as we pursue the practice of confession.

The God-setting-things-right - 11.7.25 07.11.2025 7:34 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.21-26 MSG 

He saw himself as he was - 11.6.25 06.11.2025 7:17 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.19-20 MSG 

Their throats are gaping graves - 11.5.25 05.11.2025 7:40 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.13-18 MSG 

No one’s living right; I can’t find a single one - 11.4.25 04.11.2025 8:03 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.10-12 MSG 

My sins are staring me down - 11.3.25 03.11.2025 7:34 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Psalm 51.1-6 MSG

This being human is a guest house - 11.1.25 01.11.2025 4:24 ↓

Two readings to contemplate as you take up the invitation to notice, name, feel, and offer those darker, more painful emotions that tend to surface as we practice the way of Jesus and thus make space “for the emergence of a lifetime of unprocessed pain before God and with community.”

Making space for the pain of the world - 10.31.25 31.10.2025 6:45 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Mark 15.22-25, 33-37 MSG 

Let it do its work - 10.30.25 30.10.2025 7:13 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  James 1.2-4 MSG 

Then Job broke the silence - 10.29.25 29.10.2025 6:14 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Job chapter 3 MSG 

Gethsemane: the olive press - 10.28.25 28.10.2025 7:36 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  John 12.27-28 MSG 

He plunged into an agonizing sorrow - 10.27.25 27.10.2025 7:15 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 26.36-38 MSG