by debracelovsky | Mar 31, 2026 | Lent/Easter
Matthew 21:23–Chapter 25 Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Voiceless, 1858 This quote comes to mind as I read Matthew’s account of all Jesus said and did on this day. It is astonishing. He...
by debracelovsky | Mar 30, 2026 | Lent/Easter, Word
Read Mark 11:12-19 and Matthew 21:12-14 (and see John 2:13-17) Monday of Passion Week begins with a tree. Yesterday, Jesus entered Jerusalem to wild acclaim—a forest of palm branches, cheering crowds, and his disciples clearing a path for the “King, righteous...
by debracelovsky | Mar 29, 2026 | Lent/Easter
Read John 11, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:11, and Luke 19:41-44 in this order In 2022, I stood again on the Wall surrounding the Old City of Jerusalem, looking across to the Mount of Olives. Once covered in olive groves, its slopes over the past three thousand years have...
by debracelovsky | Mar 16, 2026 | Lent/Easter
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become...
by debracelovsky | Feb 16, 2026 | Into the Vineyard, Lent/Easter, Prayer
The vinedresser is never nearer the canes than when he is pruning them. David Jeremiah, writer Here in Wine Country, with harvest long past and having shed their leaves, the crazy-auntie-looking vines are being meticulously pruned. The shorn vines now go to...
