This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the final Sunday in the season of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week — remembering the last week of Jesus’ earthly ministry.
Have you ever really messed up? Has there ever been a moment in your life when you needed a second chance? Is there anyone who could answer “no” to either of those questions?
Throughout Lent, we will be exploring the meaning of each of these by diving deeply into them each week. But you don’t need prior knowledge or reading. Nor are you expected to attend each week. Just come when you can and just as you are. It’s a time for being really present in the fullness of grace.
Most people know something about Jonah and the big fish — a whale, as the common interpretation goes — that swallowed him. Just about everyone knows that story, right?
This Sunday, February 21st, is the first Sunday in the season of Lent. Our worship theme this season is Darkest Before the Dawn. Within every moment of deep darkness lies the certainty that the dawn is coming.
Given the unusual past 12 months, this year’s “Second Mile” Easter Offering is more important now than ever before.
Mardi Gras will be this next Tuesday, and the Season of Lent begins the next day! The kinds of difficulties and depth of pain we’ve experienced since this time last year were unimaginable.
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.
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.