Every year at this time, we find our way through Lent into Palm Sunday and Holy Week. And like the first disciples, we too easily miss the main point, or forget what we have learned about how to truly see and be fed.
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This year our Lenten theme will center on the seven “I AM” sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of John. We chose this theme because it focuses on the nature of Christ and what that means in our lives.
This season of Lent we will be reflecting deeply together on the values that make us who we are as a faith community, including: Evangelism, Discipleship, Community, Compassion, Worship, and Commitment.
We will have a lot of people who walk in the doors of our church, and every church, this weekend feeling alone, feeling like they don’t belong there, feeling guilty, ashamed, lonely, and exhausted.
Humans didn’t always think in linear terms — point A has to somehow pass through B before you can get to point C. We didn’t always think in terms of Cause and Effect: don’t put the cart before the horse or else you’ll go nowhere.
Especially at this time of year, we may hear the phrase “we’re resurrection people” a lot — but what does it really mean? To Us. Today.
It was an early April morning as we drove away from the “Last Chance Food and Gas Café.” The sky was brilliantly blue with only a couple of clouds hanging there.
Over the last several months I have attended some information and training sessions about caring for or serving someone who is living with dementia.
The Justin gym was host to its own version of March madness last Sunday when 120 volunteers came together to pack 20, 880 meal kits that will help bring nutrition to people around the globe who are in distress because of famine, or other disasters.
This week we’ll continue our This Is Us Lenten worship series with a focus on the value of worship. Have you ever stopped to consider why it’s important to worship . . . together?