We continue with our Lent series, Worship in the Wilderness, thinking about the wilderness and about this journey we are on with our Lord together. This week we’re going to focus on the need to speak Truth in our increasingly secular society. We live in a wilderness, of that there is no doubt. And there are more and more voices claiming truth. How do we discern? Where do we look for real Truth? Come join together in worship on Sunday morning and here our Lord’s encouragement and invitation to speak His Truth on this journey.

Old Testament: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Epistle: Romans 8:6-11
Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11
Sermon Title: “A Truth-Speaking Journey”

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We continue with our Lent series, Worship in the Wilderness, thinking about the wilderness and about this journey we are on with our Lord together. This week we’re going to focus on the sacrificial journey Jesus took for all of us. We’ll look more closely at what that journey looked like. We’ll also consider His invitation to us to think about what that sacrifice means for us and the lives we lead as we follow Him.

Old Testament: Isaiah 53:1-12 (Scripture in Motion: Isaiah 53:4-12) 
Epistle: Romans 9:1-5 
Gospel: Matthew 14:13-14 
Sermon Title: “A Sacrificial Journey”

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We continue with our Lent series, Worship in the Wilderness, thinking about the wilderness and about this journey we are on with our Lord together. This week we’re going to focus on how hard this journey in the wilderness can be. We’ll think about lament and sorrow that we feel at different times and for different reasons. We’ll of course be mindful of our Lord’s sorrow that He expresses in multiple ways as well. Our Lord knows us and all that we go through – and the Good News is that He’s here with us and for us!

Old Testament: Exodus 3:1-10 
Epistle: Romans 5:1-11 
Gospel: John 11:20-29, 32-36 
Sermon Title: “A Sorrowful Journey” 

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We continue with our Lent series, Worship in the Wilderness, thinking about the wilderness and about this journey we are on together and with our Lord. This week we’re going to focus on simplicity. We’re going to simplify the worship service a bit and we’ll take a look at how our Lord calls us to live our lives as we follow Him, thinking about the place that simplicity can play in our lives.

Old Testament: Psalm 63:1-8 
Epistle: Romans 10:8b-13 
Gospel: Luke 4:1-13 
Sermon Title: “A Simple Journey” 

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Our new Lent series, Worship in the Wilderness, began on Ash Wednesday. This Sunday we’ll begin exploring what being in the wilderness can entail. We’ll consider the different kinds of roads that have brought us to worship and to the place we’re at in this season of our lives. We’ll look at what being in the wilderness is and what it is not – specifically, as Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness after His baptism, how the Spirit leads us into the wilderness as well. And what does that mean? We hope you can join us as we continue this new series.

Old Testament: Deuteronomy 8:1-5, 15-18 
Epistle: 1 Peter 3:18-22 
Gospel: Mark 1:9-15 
Sermon Title: “A Spirit-led Journey” 

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We hear about Jesus’ transfiguration as we wrap up the Epiphany season. This miraculous and spell-binding experience for three of Jesus’ disciples is almost beyond description. Peter tries to explain it in his second letter as he reminds us where we need to remain grounded – in God’s Word. It is His Word that we have to pay attention to, “as to a light shining in a dark place.” It is a life-giving Word by which darkness is overcome!

Old Testament: Exodus 24:12-18 
Epistle: 2 Peter 1:16-21 
Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9 
Sermon Title: “Blinding Light and Darkness Overcome” 

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Isaiah is preaching a very harsh sermon – one where he is uncovering all manner of darkness in the form of injustice. Do we see it? Do we care about it? Or are we letting that darkness simply cover us and cover up sin and evil and brokenness all around us? It’s not all doom-and-gloom, though, because we have the Lord who continues to love us and guide us. Isaiah expresses what the Lord will do and some amazing ways He’s going to choose to use us to shine His light. In the Matthew reading, Jesus explicitly tells us that we are the light of the world.

Old Testament: Isaiah 58:1-12 
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 
Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16 
Sermon Title: “The Darkness of Injustice” 

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The church in Corinth was a real mess! In the opening verses of St. Paul’s first letter to them, he expresses pretty clearly and pretty quickly the bottom-line of the Gospel – that is, the message of the cross. He contrasts God’s wisdom with human wisdom and there’s not much comparison to be made! The foolishness comes in us thinking how smart and fine and wise we are – when, in reality, that is all just another form of darkness. We hear in Micah, the Old Testament reading, some foolishness at the end of the reading, when he lays out what exactly God does require of us. It rings true to what Paul was writing at the end of the 1 Corinthians reading. Paul is urging us toward keeping a proper perspective on ourselves in relation to our God and Savior.

Old Testament: Micah 6:1-8
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12
Sermon Title: “Foolishness and Darkness: Two Peas in a Pod” 

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From Isaiah, we hear a refrain about darkness and light that we heard from Isaiah 60 on the first Sunday of the series. We’ll revisit that but from the context of following Jesus. We hear Jesus’ invitation to Peter and Andrew to come and follow Him. We also hear St. Paul in the 1 Corinthians 1 reading the need to sort out who it is we’re supposed to be following – there was great confusion in Corinth over what all this meant. Bottom line is, you can’t follow anyone in the dark. You need some light to see where you’re going.

Old Testament: Isaiah 9:1-4 
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 
Gospel: Matthew 4:12-23 
Sermon Title: “You Can’t Follow in the Dark!” 

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In John 1, Jesus is beginning to call and gather His disciples. He’s going about it all backward in comparison to the “regular” rabbis of the day. Normally students or disciples seek out a teacher or rabbi to follow but we see Jesus seeking the disciples and inviting them to follow – and they, in turn, are telling their brothers and friends also to come and see. He’s calling them out of darkness and into His light, which they do not yet realize, but soon they will clearly see. The Old Testament reading is another of Isaiah’s servant songs, which speaks of the One who was coming and how He would be known – and the imagery is full and rich with meaning!

Old Testament: Isaiah 49:1-7 
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 
Gospel: John 1:29-42 
Sermon Title: “Seeing in the Dark” 

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