Lent 2025
Practice: Pilgrimage
Each Saturday during Lent, we will take some time as a church family to practice a different spiritual exercise together. Today, we are practicing and learning about pilgrimage. Definition:...
Each Saturday during Lent, we will take some time as a church family to practice a different spiritual exercise together. Today, we are practicing and learning about pilgrimage. Definition:...
Read Philippians 3:7-14 “… because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord…” (vs. 8) I’ve lived a very nomadic life. During my childhood, my family lived in...
Read Hebrews 12:1-3 For many of us, today’s passage is almost too well-known. If that’s you, please slow down and read it a few more times, maybe even in some...
Read Joel 2:12-14a Some titles for this passage in Joel are, “Rend Your Heart,” “Change Your Life,” and “A Call to Repentance.” What could happen if the disobedient and rebellious...
Lent traces Jesus’ journey to the Cross, providing an opportunity for us as followers of Jesus to bring greater focus to Jesus’ crucifixion and what that means for us in...
Read 1 Peter 5:6-11 Suffering. Whether we see the word in the Bible or somewhere else in printed form, just the mere sight of the word can cause a slight...
Read Hosea 6:1-3 “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us...
Read Isaiah 49:6 In the Sanctuary of Mercy church, in Borja, Spain, a fresco of Jesus entitled Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) has been revered since the Spanish artist, Elías...
Below, you will find a variety of ways to reflect on the message for this week. Since God speaks to each of us in different ways, you, your family, or...
Read Ecclesiastes 3:16-17 Recently, on a regular Tuesday night, I felt everything tremble a little bit. Not like an earthquake, but like an explosion. Rockets were flying overhead and being...