Church Seasons

I'll be Home for Epiphany

01/06/21

15 mins

By Valerie Thur

This year, I’m more excited for Epiphany than I am for Christmas.
To Us a Child is Born: Everlasting Father

12/15/20

12 mins

By Valerie Thur

The well-meaning advice “time heals all wounds” is offensively false when we confront the overwhelming evidence that the constants in our lives are death, taxes, and suffering.
What Diet Coke Taught Me About Pentecost

05/29/20

15 mins

By Valerie Thur

Our use–or disuse–of language reveals a deeper need than a bubbly carbonated soda. It highlights a gift given and a gift fallen, and it leaves us thirsting for a gift restored.
- Pentecost
- God's Word
- Old Testament
- The Fall
- God
- Scripture
- Sin
- Church Seasons
The End is in Sight

12/26/19

15 mins

By Valerie Thur

We think that if we are good enough, brave enough, or at least if we try hard enough, we will be someone who can be both fully known and fully loved.
The Day of Choosing

04/12/19

14 mins

By Valerie Thur

This day was a day of choosing. On this day, Jewish households would select their Passover lambs (Ex. 12:3-6). The lambs had to be without blemish, the best of the best.
Goodbye Alleluia

04/04/19

13 mins

By Valerie Thur

Every misty road and agonizing moment of indecision reminds us that life is not about becoming—or finding—perfection. Life is the One who is perfect.
- Lent
- Church Seasons
When Up Comes Down

12/19/18

13 mins

By Valerie Thur

He is and evermore shall be God With Us: though we await His second physical Advent, He is still fully human and fully present in His Word and Sacraments.
Our Empty Hope Chest

12/14/18

14 mins

By Valerie Thur

This blog is a part of our Advent series on the hope we find in, through and given by Christ. Each week’s installment will look at hope from a different perspective with special emphasis on corresponding passages of Scripture.
Seven Stanzas at Maundy Thursday

03/29/18

13 mins

By Valerie Thur

There is something about high art forms that touches the soul.

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