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| These audio files are in .mp3 format Sermons are usually available 72 hours after they are delivered. Please check back as sermons are added. In the middle of this month we will observe the Sunday of the Transfiguration, which is followed by Ash Wednesday, and the beginning of the Lenten Season. Lent, as you know, is a season of preparation – somewhat akin to Advent as a season to prepare us for the birth of Christ. Lent, however, prepares us for the death and resurrection of Christ. You can prepare yourself for worship by reading the passages for worship, and praying about God’s Word to you, and to us. February 7th – Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Communion Music from the EPIC Contemporary Service So Good to Me Blessed Be Your Name
February 14th – Transfiguration Sunday
February 17th – Ash Wednesday – 7pm Healing Service with the disposition of ashes.
February 21st – First Sunday of Lent
February 28th – Second Sunday of Lent
March In the season of Lent, we identify with our Lord in his journey to Jerusalem and to the Cross. We enter into his experience through prayer, fasting, reading and meditating on Scripture, and generally seeking to empathize with Jesus. It has been your pastor’s experience that the more successfully one does this, the greater and deeper one’s joy at Easter and the good news of the Resurrection. These themes will guide our worship this Month. March 7th – Third Sunday of Lent – Communion
We live lives of almost constant distraction and busyness. It is rare indeed to find people who work at intentionally centering themselves in God for any significant length of time. But that is what the prophet is calling God’s people to do – and we can do it if we will do it. The reward is life itself – a life that can easily pass us by if we’re only caught up in activities. March 14th – Fourth Sunday of Lent
God’s love can be a weighty thing. Sometimes even a burdensome thing. It is particularly weighty when we abuse it, or try to run away from it. But the "burden is light" when we return seeking a fresh start. March 21st – Fifth Sunday of Lent
Is there anything preventing you from standing tall and confidently in God’s presence? For Paul, his fantastic credentials might have become a stumbling block. Now he trashes them all, and embraces the greater righteousness of being a friend of God through Jesus Christ. Lent is an opportunity to trash the past and move into God’s future. March 28th – Passion/Palm Sunday
Jerusalem was "rockin’ and rollin’" when Jesus came riding into town on Palm Sunday. And the shock waves will continue as he weeps over the city, cleanses the Temple, denounces the Scribes and predicts the destruction of Jerusalem. The chaos increases as he is betrayed, arrested, sentenced to death, and killed on a Cross. The shakiness we feel today will only intensify as we move through Holy Week. Thursday, April 1st – Maundy Thursday Soup Supper and Communion
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