| On this Good Shepherd Sunday, we embrace the fact that we are sheep and God is our shepherd who feeds us, walks with us and cares for us all the days of our life and after. We are also celebrating our relationship with camp today with special staff from Caroline Furnace. |
Accompanying Scripture:
John 10, Psalm 23
| On this third Sunday of Easter, we are filled with images of real life – joyful hearts, peaceful sleep and eating together. In this season of Easter we celebrate we are proclaimed beloved children of God for this is who we are. Resurrection sometimes shows up in the most mundane simple things. |
Accompanying Scripture:
John 3:1-7, Psalm 4, Luke 24:36b-48
| The season of Easter continues as we get a glimpse of the early church in Acts, how they shared everything and everyone had what they needed. In the gospel, we encounter how the risen Jesus greets the frightened disciples behind locked doors. He meets Thomas’s doubts and proclaims a word of peace. In this season, we celebrate how resurrection shows up in the most unlikely of places. Alleluia! Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed, Alleluia! |
Accompanying Scripture:
Acts 4:32-35, Psalm 133, John 20:19-31
| Christ is risen! Jesus is alive, and God has swallowed up death forever. With Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, we may feel astonished and confused, unsure of what to make of the empty tomb. But this is why we gather: to proclaim, witness, praise, and affirm the liberating reality of Christ’s death and resurrection. In word and feast, we celebrate God’s unending love, and depart to share this good news with all the world. Alleluia! Christ is Risen. Christ is Risen Indeed! Alleluia! |
Accompanying Scripture:
Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-24, Mark 16:1-8-35
| On this night we begin the Three Days during which we participate once again in the saving power of Jesus’ passing over from death into life. The Maundy Thursday service includes the words of Jesus’ new commandment (mandatum, from which Maundy comes) to love one another. On this night in which Jesus was handed over to death we gather around the Lord’s supper. At the service’s conclusion the altar area will be stripped as a sign of Jesus’ abandonment. |
Accompanying Scripture:
1 Corinthians 11:23-26, John 13:1-17, 31b-35
| On this fifth Sunday of Lent we get one last covenant – a promise that God will be as close to us as a tattoo on our hearts. The psalm is a nod back to Ash Wednesday and an ask to create in us clean hearts. As we prepare our hearts to face the horror and sadness of holy week, Jesus reminds us that from death can come resurrection not just for a few but for all of us. |
Accompanying Scripture:
Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 51:1-12, John 12:20-21
| Through our texts today, we are invited to lift up the things that scare and afflict us the most – snakes, sin and even death. In doing so, we remember God asks us not to lift these things up to condemn us but to save and heal us. What would it look like to be brutally honest about all the ways we fall short? Would you feel relief in such vulnerability? As Lutherans we cling to the promise that we alongside the whole cosmos are saved by God’s grace. |
Accompanying Scripture:
Numbers 21:4-9, Ephesians 2:1-10, John 3:14-21
| The third covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the central one of Israel’s history: the gift of the law to those God freed from slavery. The commandments begin with the statement that because God alone has freed us from the powers that oppressed us, we are to let nothing else claim first place in our lives. When Jesus throws the merchants out of the temple, he is defending the worship of God alone and rejecting the ways commerce and profit-making can become our gods. Centered first in God’s liberating love, we strive to live out justice and mercy in our communities and the world. |
Accompanying Scripture:
Exodus 20:1-17, Psalm 19, John 2:13-22
| This Sunday we remember another covenant. We are connected to a wide family of faith, as numerous as the stars, through Abraham and Sarah. In the gospel reading, Jesus poses this famous invitation to the crowd and disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” What does it look like today to hold onto our crosses and follow? |
Accompanying Scripture:
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, Psalm 22:23-31, Mark 8:31-38
| In this first week of Lent, we hear the familiar story of promise with a rainbow and of wilderness. No matter what messiness we find ourselves in, this story reminds us we are not alone. While Satan may show up, there also promises to be wild beasts, angels and Jesus in the midst of it all. |
Accompanying Scripture:
Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-10, Mark 1:9-15
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