53 Days Through Matthew

Lent for Everyone is a YouVersion Scripture reading plan FCC is calling all our congregation to engage. The readings through Matthews Gospel are designed to lead us all together through the same spiritual experience right through Holy Week and Easter. The commentary on the readings should you want to read more are written by a fantastic Biblical scholar named N.T. Wright. His insights are quite literally moving and insightful. If you would like to join a growing group of FCC friends in this spiritual practice all you have to do is go to YouVersion and register. Look for the reading plan entitled Lent for All. You can have the daily readings sent to you each day via email or even on your smart phone.

There is also a Facebook page that has been created if you want read and/or share what the Spirit is stirring up in you. All you have to do here is befriend me, Michael Dunn, with a message that you want to join the FB group called Vitaljournal. I'm posting there a few times a week as I read through Matthew.

Here's a thought: There can be no wholeness in the image of Christ which is not incarnate in our relationships with others, both in the body of Christ and in the world. M. Robert Mulholland, Jr. Invitation to a Journey: A Roadmap for Spiritual Formation.

Erasmus' Heart is Ours as Well

"Make Christ the only goal of your life. Dedicate to Him all your enthusiasm, all your effort, your leisure as well as your business. And don't look upon Christ as a mere word, as an empty expression, but rather as charity, simplicity, patience and purity--in short, in terms of everything he has taught us." For Jesus was "the sole archetype of godliness." Quoted in Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Yale University Press, 1985, p. 155.