Sunday Worship Schedule:
8:45 a.m. Traditional Service - Sanctuary
9:45 a.m. Church School for all ages
11:00 a.m. Traditional Service - Sanctuary
Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of alternate months.
Note:
Worship is child friendly. Children up to 1st grade may leave the Sanctuary to take part in an active worship session following a children's sermon.
Most weeks our Scripture Readings come from the Revised Common Lectionary. Upcoming Readings are provided for your convenience.
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LENT 2012
February 26, 2012 – 1st Sunday in Lent
1. Baptismal Identity: Remembering our Baptisms
Sermon: The 3 R's
Scripture readings: Genesis 9:8-17, Mark 1:9-15
March 4, 2012 -2nd Sunday in Lent/“Gifts of Women”
2. Self-Identity: Being Who I Am
Sermon: Will the Real God Please Stand Up?
Scripture readings: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, Mark 8:31-38
March 11, 2012 -3rd Sunday in Lent
3. Congregational Identity: Housekeeping or Sacred Space?
Sermon: Spring Cleaning
Scripture readings: Psalm 19, John 2:13-22
March 18, 2012 -4th Sunday in Lent
4. Evangelical Identity: Light vs. Darkness
Sermon: Snake Handler Savior
Scripture readings: Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-21
March 25, 2012 -5th Sunday in Lent
5. Cultural Identity: Who Will You Serve?
Sermon: Being Where He Is, Where We Are
Scripture readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 12:20-33
April 1, 2012 - Palm Sunday
6. Covenant Identity: The way of the cross
Sermon: Where are Mickey and Goofy?
Scripture readings: Scripture readings: Isaiah 50:4-9a, Mark 11:1-11
April 5, 2012 – Maundy Thursday
7:00 p.m. Service of Holy Communion in the Activities Center
Sermon: The Table of Radical Welcome
A Prayer for Lent
Brother Christ, help us to follow you
deep into the waters of baptism, to break the chain of past wrongs, to become fit to face your coming age.
Help us to follow you
into the desert, with you to fast, denying false luxury-values,
refusing the tempting ways of self-indulgence,
the way of success at all costs, the way of coercive persuasion.
Help us to follow you
in untiring ministry to town and village, to heal and restore,
to cast out the demonic forces of greed, resentment, communal hatred, and self-destructive fears rampant in our lands.
Help us to follow you
into the place of quiet retreat, to intercede for the confused, the despairing, the anxiety-driven, to prepare ourselves for costly service.
Help us to follow you
on the road to Jerusalem, to set our faces firmly against friendly suggestions to live a safe, expedient life, to embrace boldly the way of self-offering.
Help us to follow you
even to the cross, to see our hope in your self-spending love,
to die to all within us not born of your love.
Help us to follow you
out of the dark tomb, to share daily in your resurrection life,
to be renewed daily in your image of love, to serve daily as your new body being broken for your world.
Jesus, our Brother, help us to follow you.
Early Worship Schedule - Spring 2012
Sundays at 8:30 a.m. for breakfast and 8:55 a.m. Worship in the Fellowship Hall on the following Sundays:
February 26
March 11 & 25
April 22