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I Give Up – Lenten Booklet & Calendar

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The season of Lent is a time when we lean into our spiritual disciplines such as prayer, fasting, scripture reading, meditation, worship, service, and Sabbath-keeping. As a part of our Lenten journey, we are inviting people to join us in our daily Lenten (Monday-Friday) devotions written by your pastors. Devotional Calendar These devotions are accompaniments to the Lenten Sermons series…
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Lenten Bible Study: I Give Up

Lent

Begins the Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Tuesdays at 7:00pm : 5-Week Zoom Bible Study

Lent is a season of fasting and prayer, a season of repentance and denial of self, to help us remember the suffering of Christ and to prepare us for the Day of Resurrection (Easter, April 17). It is a season where we “give up” something as a way to place our relationship with Christ more front and center in our lives.

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Every Time I Feel the Spirit

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By Pastor Melaina Trice Every Time I Feel the Spirit, an African American spiritual hymn, expresses the relationship between the Spirit and humankind. It is one of my favorite songs. “Every time I feel the Spirit moving…” says God’s Spirit is active, and can be felt; it can be experienced. While this notion of God being felt is steeped in…
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The Hope of Lent

The Messenger
Lent, The Messenger 2022-02-01
By Pastor Heerak Kim “I despise your festivals…” Amos 5:21. It contradicts Genesis 1 in which God creates lights in the sky “for signs and for seasons and for days and years” (14), and also Genesis 8 where God promises to Noah after the flood, “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvests, cold and heat, summer and winter,…
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