Senior Pastor

This week in our Sanctuary worship services we will continue our Lenten worship series, I AM, with “The Good Shepherd.”

Last week in our Sanctuary worship service, we continued the Lenten worship series, I AM, with “The Gate,” In which we examined together what it really means when Jesus says, I am the gate.

This week as we continue our Lenten worship series around the I AM sayings of Jesus with “The Light of the World,” the first thing that stands out for me is the significant role light and darkness play in John’s gospel — from the first chapter on.

Last Sunday, the first Sunday of Lent, we began our worship series examining the seven I AM sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of John with “The Bread of Life.” As you all learned, the Gospel of John is different from the other three gospels in several important ways.

As a large, mainline denomination, downtown church, we have a 90-year tradition of always asking the questions, How can we do this better? What more can we do?

This week in Sanctuary worship we’ll be looking at the story generally known as “The Widow’s Mite.” Jesus was watching people coming to the temple to leave their cash offering, and among those who were wealthy and threw in large sums of money, he noticed a poor widow who came through the crowd to deposit two small coins in the collection box.