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Holy Week 2024 – Tuesday

God surprises us by doing things we don’t expect and inverting the status quo John 12 27 Now I am deeply troubled, and I don’t know what to say. But I must not ask my Father to keep me from this time of suffering. In fact, I came into the world to suffer. 28 So Father, bring…
Holy Week 2024 – Monday

God surprises us by doing things we don’t expect and inverting the status quo John 12 Six days before Passover Jesus went back to Bethany, where he had raised Lazarus from death. 2 A meal had been prepared for Jesus. Martha was doing the serving, and Lazarus himself was there. 3 Mary took a very expensive bottle of…
Sunday Reflection – Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024

Jesus in Jerusalem John 12 12 The next day a large crowd was in Jerusalem for Passover. When they heard that Jesus was coming for the festival, 13 they took palm branches and went out to greet him. They shouted, “Hosanna!God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord!God bless the King of Israel!” 14 Jesus found a donkey…
Kids Korner: Hosanna!! (Mar. 24th)

Read Mark 11:1-11 with your family. There are a lot of ideas about who Jesus was 2000 years ago and who he is today. People have ideas about God… some of them about a God who love us, and some of the ideas are that God is always judging us. Our story of Palm Sunday…
Lenten Study 2024 – Week 5

There are many children in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, but they are often overlooked or by-passed by Sunday lectionaries and Bible studies. Even Sunday School curriculums rarely take time just to focus on the children, or the childhood of significant people in Scripture. Through this Lenten series we will be looking at some of…
Sunday Reflection – Lent V, March 17, 2024

Jesus at the Temple John 12 20 Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover. 21 Philip from Bethsaida in Galilee was there too. So they went to him and said, “Sir, we would like to meet Jesus.” 22 Philip told Andrew. Then the two of them went to Jesus and told him. 23 Jesus said: The time has come…
Kids Korner: Loving the world (Mar. 17th)

Read John 12:20-33 with your family. The idea of ‘losing your life to find it’ is very confusing for adults as well as kids. Jesus gave a different word picture – seeds. If you have a package of seeds sitting on the counter, nothing happens. However, if you take those seeds out of the package…
Lenten Study 2024 – Week 4

There are many children in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, but they are often overlooked or by-passed by Sunday lectionaries and Bible studies. Even Sunday School curriculums rarely take time just to focus on the children, or the childhood of significant people in Scripture. Through this Lenten series we will be looking at some of…
Sunday Reflection – Lent IV, March 10, 2024

Jesus at the Temple John 3 14 And the Son of Man must be lifted up, just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert. 15 Then everyone who has faith in the Son of Man will have eternal life. 16 God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only…
Kids Korner: Loving the world (Mar. 10th)

Read John 3:14-21 with your family. Sometimes it’s hard to remember, and hard to imagine, the world and the culture around us being different than what we know. When we learn about history, however, we can see that the people in the past live differently than we do today. Now, imagine what the world can…