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From Palms to Passion–It’s Everyone’s Story
The journey of Holy Week is one that we can all relate to. A story that begins with a triumphant entry into Jerusalem and ends at the cross. We have all had days, weeks, years (and even seasons) that begin with joy and promise and then turn unexpectedly to tragedy and trauma. The phone call …
Holy Week at First Pres
Saturday, March 25 Palm Sunday 10 a.m. Worship A congregation participation drama. It’s become our Palm Sunday tradition. No worries! No one has to come up front and talk or anything. Maundy Thursday 6 p.m. We will gather around the table in the fellowship hall for a simply meal of fruit, cheese and bread, and …
Lenten Devotion Day 21
Colossians 3:23 Earlier in this century, someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship. —Leland Ryken, author and Wheaton College professor I have grown up and grown old with Madonna, and I …
Lenten Devotions Day 19
We take a break from our Lenten Devotions to celebrate International Women’s Day by remembering one of the bold, brazen women in the Bible. Luke 7:36-49 Simon the Pharisee knew it. Probably everyone who had gathered at the dinner knew it. This woman was a sinner! She was a woman of ill-repute, she was tainted, …
Lenten Devotions Day 18
Ephesians 4:29-32 Refusal to forgive binds you to your past; forgiveness binds you to your future and to God’s hope and grace that things can be different. It takes a matter of faith not only to believe that God forgives you, but also to allow that forgiveness to provide the shield of protection you’ve looked …
Lenten Devotion Day 17
Genesis 12:1-3 Blessed to be a blessing. This is one of the most profound theological concepts in scripture. Here is the revelation from God that God has chosen to work in the world through human agents—through a chosen people. Not that God is helpless without humanity or that humans are given some sort of …
Lenten Devotion Day 16
Names for God Exodus 3:13-15 Throughout the Bible, there are a number of names for God, as well there should be. Our God is so big, so mighty and so…other from us that to even begin to grasp the breadth and depth and scope of God, we need far more than one word. The different …
Lenten Devotion Day 14
Isaiah 40:28-31 Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A.A. Milne We all need to remember this. We’re braver, stronger and even smarter than we think we are (not counting that one person we all know who thinks s/he is smarter …
Lenten Devotion Day 13
A Reflection on Eliphaz Job 4:1-21 I’m not going to lie to you, Eliphaz. You start off strong. You sit for seven days and seven nights with Job, existing in his pain with him. You allow him to speak. When you address Job, you say, “If one tries to answer you, will you be annoyed?” …