The 40-day season beginning with Ash Wednesday and ending on Good Friday; during this time, Christians are often devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ’s fasting in the wilderness.
4th Sunday in Lent March 27, 2022 Scripture – Luke 15: 11b-32 The parable of the prodigal son…one of the most famous and best known of the parables Jesus told. In it, we get a real-life example of love, forgiveness, and restoration…along with …
Scripture – Luke 4:16-30 Theme: When Jesus tried to return home to Nazareth, the people there didn’t expect to see someone new; they wanted their old friend, Jesus, to show up – and to heal the sick and cast out …
3rd Sunday in Lent March 20, 2022 Scriptures – Isaiah 55: 1-9 and Luke 13: 1-9 My grandmother grew up on a farm out in the country of central Texas. When she married my grandfather and moved to the city, she took …
2nd Sunday in Lent March 13, 2022 Scripture – Philippians 3:17 – 4:1 Back in the late 70’s, my father took me and my two sisters to a ski lodge in the Tennessee mountains to go snow skiing. Dad had grown up …
Scripture – Genesis 15: 1-12 Theme: Abram was promised by God that his descendants would number more than the stars in the sky. With our advanced telescopes, we are beginning to understand just how large that number is. However, God’s …
1st Sunday in Lent March 6, 2022 Scripture – Luke 4: 1-13 There aren’t too many things worse that working and preparing yourself for some type of major test – only to see someone else just breeze through it, almost without …
Scripture – Matthew 6: 16-18 Theme: Lent begins this week, and many Christians like to “fast” or give something up during this season. That is a wonderful discipline, AND we can also consider adding something good to our lives to …
April 1, 2021 Maundy Thursday Scripture readings: Luke 22: 7-20 (the Last Supper) and John 13: 18-38 (Jesus gives a new commandment) When Christianity first began, for a few hundred years, the church leaders debated and fought over points of …
March 28, 2021 Palm Sunday Scripture reading – Mark 11: 1-11 We’ve all heard it before…dozens and dozens of times… described in detail in all four Gospels…the triumphant entry of Jesus of Nazareth into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. We all know …