Dr. Anna's Weekly Devotional

“So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and...

It’s taken a minute to reflect on a quote I came across this week from author Horace Jackson Brown Jr. “Remember that everyone you meet...

“He has told you, O mortal, what is good,    and what does the Lord require of youbut to do justice and to love kindness    and to walk...

“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul. For I was overjoyed...

Beloved Friends, Yesterday our congregation received a letter from me that began in the following way: “Our story begins and concludes...

“Be still and know that I am God….” Psalm 46 Somewhere a transformer blew, and the lights went out. They stayed out. Office phones died....

“Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see...

You may not be old enough to remember the Walt Kelly comic strip “Pogo”. The gentle spirited title character, an opossum, was balanced by...

Several years ago, I was privileged to spend several days with theologian Sharon Daloz Parks, author of “Big Questions, Worthy Dreams”....

In Forgetting Ourselves On Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition, Brian Mahan speaks of “moments of recruitment.” These “moments”...

“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have established, what is mankind that you are...

“…as (the disciples) were watching, (Jesus) was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.” Acts 1 Thinking we know everything,...

It happens every year. Try as I might to ward off the blues, they settle unwelcomed like fog on water during Holy Week, and they linger...

“You're my place of quiet retreat; I wait for your Word to renew me.” Psalm 119:114 The expansive windows of my church study open to...

“God destined us  for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will.” Ephesians1:5 Twenty-two...

“Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” Proverbs 7:3...

“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and...

“Do all things without murmuring or arguing, so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a...

“Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain…And Jesus was transfigured before them, and...

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and...