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Call Meeting

Sunday, March 19 at 11:45 am

EASTER BREAKFAST

Everyone is invited! Bring friends and family! There will be scrambled eggs with ham, sausages, cheesy potatoes, cheese and sausage, fruit, pastries and muffins!  Of course juice and coffee too!  Easter Breakfast is served in the lower lobby with seating in the gymnasium between the 2 services on Easter Sunday 8:00-9:15am.  We hope to see you there!

Walk with Jesus – His Last Week on Earth

February 19 to April 9.  Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am.   During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us.  Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb.  En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection.  The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was.  He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love.  This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.”  (John 20:31)

THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT

Injustice  (Matthew 26:57-68)  Despite the verdict of “guilty” heaped upon him with lies and false testimony, Jesus held his ground.  His framework was “gentle kindness” a concept in Greek that means the supernatural ability to work for the betterment of people who are exasperating you and exhausting your patience.  We note that has to be God at work.  It’s because love “always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails.” (1 Cor. 13)  He bore the injustice for us.  He did it willingly.  Out of pure love. (more…)

THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT

By Mockery  (Matthew 27:27-31) Christ the Son, temporarily gave up position and pre-eminence in heaven though he was still fully God in spirit and soul. He and his family were simple members of the local synagogue. Like so many everyday people of our time, they attended church and went back home to family, friends, and neighbors, back to working their trade and caring for their people. A man of no reputation? Even with such a lowly background his enemies wanted to crush him. They beat him and laughed. They mocked him and sneered. They took everything away from him while he was giving them every ounce of love he could muster. Hearts of darkness and stone attack him, but he used his hands and words to heal.

Walk with Jesus – His Last Week on Earth

February 19 to April 9.  Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am.

During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us.  Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb.  En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection.  The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was.  He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love.  This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.”  (John 20:31)
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Walk with Jesus – His Last Week on Earth – February 19 to April 9

Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am.   During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us.  Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb.  En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection.  The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was.  He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love.  This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.”  (John 20:31)

THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT – By Rejection  (Matthew 23:37)

Jesus came from humble beginnings, of low social status.  In those days the Jewish people were like the world today in that they had an upper class of the rich and educated.  Similarly, the religious leaders were financially well off (perhaps through corruption?) and highly educated.  They had taken on a “haughty air” about them in the fashion of their Roman conquerors.  One reason was because they along with their kings were just puppets who co-operated with their overlords, for their own advancement.  That’s why this humble carpenter was not well received by the scribes and Pharisees when he began to teach the gospel of peace, reverently and humbly, but with authority even casting out demons and healing the sick.  He was too much for them, but just right for us. (more…)

THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT – By Temptation (Matthew 4:1-11)

He chose to be made like us in all things.  It is of utmost importance to note that, although Jesus was in fact, born into this world in a body just like ours (that knew fear, anxiety, sadness and joy) yet he was still perfect, without sin.  The Holy Spirit reveals in the Word that Jesus had to be born in a human body to be tempted as we are.  The Word is clear, giving us hope that we will be fully delivered from our shame, our pain, our wounds – delivered out of temptation just as we have been freed from the consequence of sin by our association with him. (more…)

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