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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025 Fahed Abu-Akel 2 Timothy 1:3–11 “I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you consta...

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 Ben and Carol Weir Matthew 8:18–27 When the storm overtakes their boat, the disciples panic. Waves crash, wind howls and Jesus sleeps. “Save...

When the storm overtakes their boat, the disciples panic. Waves crash, wind howls and Jesus sleeps. “Save us, Lord! We are perishing!” they cry. But Jesus responds not with alarm but authority: “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?”
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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 The Harrisburg Seven Psalm 7:6–11 During the Vietnam War, as bombs fell abroad and unrest simmered at home, a group of religious activists t...

During the Vietnam War, as bombs fell abroad and unrest simmered at home, a group of religious activists took a stand against what they saw as a moral and spiritual catastrophe. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #TheHarrisburgSeven #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Monday, Sept. 29, 2025 Hunger Matthew 6:25–26 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wea...

As Jesus speaks, he places in the hearts and minds of those listening an alternative vision of life that trusts that God is actively involved in all things, as seen in the birds of the air. #hunger #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 Lois Stair 2 Kings 9:17–37 (NIV) When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as ...

As we journey through this Season of Peace, we reflect not only on peace as a promise but also as a calling born from the midst of conflict and driven by courage. #2025PathofPeacereflections #PCUSA #ASeasonofPeace #PresbyterianChurchUSA #LoisStair

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 James Foster Reese Matthew 6:1–6, 16–18 The Rev. Dr. James Foster Reese is widely remembered for his dedication to justice, education, commu...

The Rev. Dr. James Foster Reese is widely remembered for his dedication to justice, education, community and faith. While pastoring a church on the campus of Knoxville College, he was actively engaged in the Civil Rights Movement. #2025PathofPeacereflections #JamesFosterReese

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Wenesday, Sept. 24, 2025 Fred Rogers Matthew 5:38–48 The lectionary text for the day is located within Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. This particular chunk of text is k...

The lectionary text for the day is located within Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. This particular chunk of text is known for its “you have heard it said … but I say …” statements. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA #FredRogers

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025 Elenora Giddings Ivory Psalm 54 But surely, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life. Psalm 54 is a cry for deliverance. The ps...

Psalm 54 is a cry for deliverance. The psalmist writes from a place of hurt, betrayal and persecution. Rather than succumb to their despair, the psalmist looks to the heavens for guidance. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 21, 2025 Rachel Henderlite Luke 16:1–13 When I was little, I was obsessed with “The Borrowers” — a movie about a tiny family living under floorboards...

When I was little, I was obsessed with “The Borrowers” — a movie about a tiny family living under floorboards who survive by “borrowing” what humans won’t miss. Inspired, I began borrowing from my older sister. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 19, 2025 William H. Sheppard Matthew 5:14–16 When reading this passage, I imagine those listening to Jesus’ words pictured the light emanating from J...

When reading this passage, I imagine those listening to Jesus’ words pictured the light emanating from Jerusalem, a city built on a hill whose light can be seen from miles away. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 William H. Sheppard Matthew 5:14–16 When reading this passage, I imagine those listening to Jesus’ words pictured the light emanating from J...

Matthew 5:14–16

When reading this passage, I imagine those listening to Jesus’ words pictured the light emanating from Jerusalem, a city built on a hill whose light can be seen from miles away. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 Dean and Marianne Lewis Matthew 5:1–10 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God,” Jesus says in today’s text. T...

Peacemaking isn’t always marked by tranquility. Lewis was known for his fiery, urgent pursuit of justice, for what David Staniunas of the Presbyterian Historical Society calls an “impatient spirit.” #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 17, 2025 John Haskell Shedd Matthew 4:18–25 (NIV) “As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his br...

In 1859, John Haskell Shedd arrived in the isolated mountain town of Urmia, in northwest Persia. Shedd, along with his son William Ambrose, served as Presbyterian missionaries in the region for over four decades. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 14, 2025 Isabella Graham Luke 15:8–10 ‘Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and s...

Bent over her broom, her eyes searching every dark corner, every crevice in the floor … searching … searching … I can imagine Isabella Graham searching for pennies for the Penny Society she founded. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 12, 2025 Hunger Matthew 3:1–12 John the Baptist is crying out in the wilderness, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” He was preparing ...

John the Baptist is crying out in the wilderness, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” He was preparing the way of the Lord. John the Baptist was a prophet in the mold of the prophet Isaiah. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 John Fife Matthew 2:13–23 Today’s dreadful text describes circumstances we know all too well in our world today. Two poor parents with a you...

Today’s dreadful text describes circumstances we know all too well in our world today. Two poor parents with a young child flee a murderous monarch in search of basic safety in a distant land. #2025PathofPeacereflections #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 The Settlement Movement Philippians 2:1–5 If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit...

If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Monday, Sept. 9, 2025 Adelaide Woodard Psalm 42:9–10 “I say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppres...

Imagine a population in desperate need of medical care praying Psalm 42 to God: “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?” #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Monday, Sept. 8, 2025 Frank Shirley Philippians 1:1–6 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the ...

“He’s the last of the great churchmen.”
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2025 Path of Peace reflections - Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025 by Marianne Moore Jeremiah 18:1–11; Psalm 139: 1–6, 13–18 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Come, go down to the potter’s hous...

Jeremiah 18:1–11; Psalm 139: 1–6, 13–18 #2025PathofPeacereflections #ASeasonofPeace #PCUSA #PresbyterianChurchUSA

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