For Midweek Lenten Services this year we are focusing on a series of words associated with the preparation of ashes for Ash Wednesday: Gather, Burn, Crush, Sift, Mix, Pour, Bless This is from the first week, Gather. I gather the palms for burning. Gather together all the palm fronds to form a bundle. Gather them…
It is always a remarkable moment to stand here and see all of you looking back at me with the dark, cross-shaped smudges on your foreheads. It is like holding up the bread and wine at communion and seeing, in a sense, the people of God through communion; to see the body of Christ amongst…
Maundy Thursday Exodus 12:1-14, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, John 13:1-17, 31-35 Why is this night different from all other nights? For starters, everything is in a different order than any other worship service of the whole year. I’m here in the pulpit doing a sermon at the very beginning of everything, which seems odd but since…
Lent Wednesday March 20 2013 Have you ever thought to yourself: if I could just speak directly to Jesus, face to face, I would know what I should do with my life? I know I have. Many of us have probably wished we could find all the answers to our life questions in scripture. I’ve…
The other day I saw a little Batman and Robin cartoon that really made me smile. I love Batman anyway, so the fact that it was church related humor made it even more attractive. In the cartoon Robin is saying the first part of that Lenten no-no word. He gets about half of it out,…
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