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Third Sunday In Lent Sunday Worship – 3/20/22

The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.” The landowner’s ultimatum is forestalled by the gardener’s readiness to till the ground one…

Second Sunday in Lent

This week, in our Lent devotions, we have been reminded of Jesus’ deep compassion for sad, grieving, hurting people – and so too, Jesus’ compassion continues to extend out from the cross to the entire world. Here in Lent, we remain “stretched by the cross” to break through barriers and help others move from surviving…

First Sunday in Lent

These forty days called Lent are like no other. It is our opportune time to return to the God who rescues, to receive the gifts of God’s grace, to believe with the heart and confess with the mouth the wonder of God’s love in Jesus, and to resist temptation at every turn. This is no…

7th Sunday after Epiphany  

On this 7th Sunday of Epiphany Season, we hear Jesus’ teaching about extending love, blessing, prayer, and generosity beyond all barriers – even to those who would be our enemies. Jesus speaks extending forgiveness to others, rather than judgment – and the Old Testament lesson tells the heart-moving story of Joseph, who forgave his brothers…

5th Sunday after Epiphany

The fifth Sunday after Epiphany continues to highlight unlikely instruments and circumstances appointed to reveal God’s glory. “Who will go for us?” God asks. A person of unclean lips, a former persecutor of the church of God, and three fishermen who couldn’t catch a thing. More surprising still, perhaps, is that we are also called.