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  • Holy Week 2023 – Wednesday

    Sometimes our personal power is far more limited than we realize   Matthew 26 14 Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples. He went to the chief priests 15  and asked, “How much will you give me if I help you arrest Jesus?” They paid Judas 30 silver coins, 16 and from then on he started looking for a good…

  • Holy Week 2023 – Tuesday

    The question of ‘authority’ is about power, not personal connection with Jesus’ message   Matthew 21 23 Jesus had gone into the temple and was teaching when the chief priests and the leaders of the people came up to him. They asked, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”…

  • Holy Week 2023 – Monday

    Anger can be a spiritual response to our personal connection with injustice   Matthew 21 12 Jesus went into the temple and chased out everyone who was selling or buying. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and the benches of the ones who were selling doves. 13  He told them, “The Scriptures say, ‘My house should…

  • Sunday Reflection – Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023

      Jesus enters Jerusalem Matthew 21 When Jesus and his disciples came near Jerusalem, he went to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives and sent two of them on ahead. 2 He told them, “Go into the next village, where you will at once find a donkey and her colt. Untie the two donkeys and bring them to…

  • Kids Korner: Hosanna, loud hosannas (Palm Sunday, April 2nd)

    Read Matthew 21:1-11 with your family. Jesus entry into Jerusalem was a celebration and is one of the few places in the Bible where children are active in supporting Jesus. The word Hosanna means “please help us”. The children in Jerusalem knew the Romans guards were not nice people, and they believed Jesus would get…

  • Lenten Study 2023, Week Five

    Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. During our study we will look at how the book was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today. We will use the different genres of poetry found throughout as our entry point into…

  • Sunday Reflection – Lent V, March 26, 2023

      Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead John 11 1-2  A man by the name of Lazarus was sick in the village of Bethany. He had two sisters, Mary and Martha. This was the same Mary who later poured perfume on the Lord’s head and wiped his feet with her hair. 3 The sisters sent a message to the…

  • Kids Korner: Lazarus is alive again (Lent V, March 26th)

    Read John 11:1-45 with your family. There are some interesting facts in this story. I story of Lazarus is interesting. We have a friend of Jesus who has died, Jesus risking death to come back to see him, Martha, Mary and others being sad and wanting Jesus to do something, and after three days God…

  • Lenten Study 2023, Week Four

    Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. During our study we will look at how the book was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today. We will use the different genres of poetry found throughout as our entry point into…

  • Sunday Reflection – Lent IV, March 19, 2023

      Jesus heals a blind man John 9 As Jesus walked along, he saw a man who had been blind since birth. 2 Jesus’ disciples asked, “Teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it because he or his parents sinned?” 3 “No, it wasn’t!” Jesus answered. “But because of his blindness, you will see God work a miracle…