Scripture: Mark 14-15

Please enjoy this dramatic reading from the Gospel of Mark: Passion of Jesus

Scripture: 
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Mark 10:35-45

Repentance: God is not done with us yet 
During the Sundays in Lent, we reckon with the ugliness of our true selves, how far short we fall when we stand before God. But God isn’t finished with us yet. Each of the Gospel lessons opens us to the way of God, reminds us of the gospel, and readies us to testify to Christ in word and deed. The route for our Lenten journey is repentance.

Scripture:
Numbers 21:4-9
John 3:14-21

Repentance: God is not done with us yet 
During the Sundays in Lent, we reckon with the ugliness of our true selves, how far short we fall when we stand before God. But God isn’t finished with us yet. Each of the Gospel lessons opens us to the way of God, reminds us of the gospel, and readies us to testify to Christ in word and deed. The route for our Lenten journey is repentance.

Scripture:
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
John 2:13-22

Repentance: God is not done with us yet
During the Sundays in Lent, we reckon with the ugliness of our true selves, how far short we fall when we stand before God. But God isn’t finished with us yet. Each of the Gospel lessons opens us to the way of God, reminds us of the gospel, and readies us to testify to Christ in word and deed. The route for our Lenten journey is repentance.

Scripture: 
Isaiah 52:13-15; 53:3
Mark 15:25-39

Repentance: God is not done with us yet
During the Sundays in Lent, we reckon with the ugliness of our true selves, how far short we fall when we stand before God. But God isn’t finished with us yet. Each of the Gospel lessons opens us to the way of God, reminds us of the gospel, and readies us to testify to Christ in word and deed. The route for our Lenten journey is repentance.

This message series is from 2022 with Pastor Scott.  The inspiration is from a book called "Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive" by Thom S Rainer.  

This message series is from 2022 with Pastor Scott.  The inspiration is from a book called "Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive" by Thom S Rainer.  

This message series is from 2022 with Pastor Scott.  The inspiration is from a book called "Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive" by Thom S Rainer.  

Scripture:
2 Corinthians 3:12-13, 4:1-6
Mark 9:2-9

Greater Things Than These:
In the darkness of winter, the light of the epiphany season shines through Jesus on us. That light began with a star in the east and brightens to show the heavens standing open. That light calls us to fish for people, to hear the teaching of Jesus, and to venture in new ways and into new places with the light of Christ. In this light we see Jesus, only Jesus, and others can see Him, too, though us.

Scripture:
Isaiah 40:21-31
Mark 1:29-39

Unexpected Endings
Often, we think we know how things will turn out--at the game, on the job, in politics, in life. But the message of Christianity at the end of the church year is to expect the unexpected. The parable of the talents, the song of Zachariah, and the parable of the sheep and the goats are all about surprising and unexpected endings that come from the grace and love of God. And those unexpected endings can inspire us to do unexpected things. God's grace is always surprising, just ask the women going to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus on that early Sunday morning.