This year for our ecumenical midweek Lenten worship series, we are focusing on the Lord’s Prayer, looking at one or two lines per week, influenced by the devotional book The Lord’s Prayer for Lent, by Vern Gundermann (available for Kindle on
In today’s Gospel lesson from Mark 8:27-38, Jesus warns his disciples that there is a cost to following him. What does it mean to take up your cross and follow? And what kind of a Messiah is this Jesus, anyway?
For 40 days in the wilderness, Jesus resisted temptation on the strength of his baptism. Where do you find the strength to persevere in the wilderness? Here’s my sermon for the first Sunday in Lent on Mark 1:9-15 looking at baptismal
It’s Palm Sunday! In this online worship service and sermon, we’re looking at the story of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem in Matthew 21:1-11. Helpful resources for me were Jonathan Merritt at Christianity Today, David Lose at In the Meantime,and this
This week was my first time putting together a “full” online worship service, something I continued doing for about two months. This service is for the 5th Sunday in Lent, March 29, 2020, and the text for the sermon is