Third Sunday In Lent 3-3-24 The third covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the central one of Hebrew history: the gift of the law to those God freed from slavery. The commandments begin with the statement that because God alone has freed us from the powers that oppressed us, we are to let nothing…
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“Guided to Love…”
“Guided to the Cross!” Here in our 40-day Lenten journey, we find so much meaning in all the special devotions and worship times that open our hearts even more fully to God’s amazing love & grace for each of us and all humanity – as poured out for us all by Jesus upon his cross!…
In this service for Week 1 of Lent, we are drawn to Calvary to receive hope. In word and song, we contemplate how to live lives of hope as we remember that Christ went to the cross to save us forevermore.
The Holy Season of Lent has arrived – and we rejoice in these 40 days to be guided to the cross, where we marvel at the fullness of God’s love & forgiveness & grace for each of us, and all the world! We had some powerful experiences last week, with 86 people at Ash Wednesday…
On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to…
With excitement building for Super Bowl weekend in society, we – as disciples of Jesus – find joy this Sunday celebrating the Transfiguration of our Lord! We remember how Peter, James & John journeyed with Jesus for a mountaintop experience so amazing, that it made any Super Bowl game or halftime show pale in comparison.…
This weekend, there is excitement over a groundhog who did not see his shadow and predicts an early spring. But more than that, as people of faith, we are excited that long ago Jesus came out of a tomb and did not turn back, in spite of the shadow of a cross and all the…
In Deuteronomy God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses, who will speak for God; in Psalm 111 God shows the people the power of God’s works. For the church these are ways of pointing to the unique authority people sensed in Jesus’ actions and words. We encounter that authority in God’s word, around…
As we continue through the time after Epiphany, stories of the call to discipleship show us the implications of our baptismal calling to show Christ to the world. Jesus begins proclaiming the good news and calling people to repentance right after John the Baptist is arrested for preaching in a similar way. Knowing that John…