Prayer for peace in our world

God of mercy and love, Lord of justice and peace:  We cry out to you on behalf of those who suffer for the sake of righteousness.  We cry out to you to disrupt the plans of all who intend evil,ย and who seek to harm the innocent. โ€œBlessed are the poor in spirit.โ€ Look with compassion on …

Even greater things

John 11:21-27; 14:12 Teaching, training apprentices, rebuking religious leaders. Healings, exorcisms, turning water into wine, calming a storm, feeding a crowd with five loaves and two fish. And then the biggest of all: raising a widowโ€™s son from death to life, and then raising Lazarus from the dead. Jesus was one of the most unusual, noteworthy …