It was the end of summer (2022). During a meeting with our lay pastor, Jessica Davis, the subject of, what in the world were we going to do about Sunday School for the kids, came up. Since we have just a handful of kids on Sunday mornings, Jessica came up with...
Apostle’s Hymn Beginning this fall, on Holy Communion Sundays, the band will be singing, Apostle’s Hymn. It is a hymn based on the Apostle’s Creed, written around 700 AD by a variety of unknown, ancient authors. The Apostles didn’t write it. They were long gone by the time the Creed...
My bookshelf: Another Gospel? Another Gospel? was written by Alisa Childers. For those of us who have been around the block a couple of times, she was a member of the pop Christian band, ZoeGirl. Alisa began to doubt Christianity after a progressive pastor began to revise the authority of...
My Bookshelf: Experiencing God Experiencing God was written by Henry Blackaby and Claude King. Published in 1994, the book seeks to impress upon its readers that God is still out there and we moderns can still experience Him. Because God is multi-faceted, He can be experienced in multiple ways. To...
The older generation says about the younger generation’s music, “That’s not real music!” The younger generation says, “Ok, Boomer.” While these comments are usually made in good nature, I have found that this is not necessarily true in the church when it comes to hymns versus praise and worship songs....
Luke 24:1-12 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about...
Day Seven: Holy Saturday This is the full day that Christ’s body lay in the tomb. The tomb was guarded by Roman soldiers, all day. Saturday was also the Sabbath. When the Sabbath ended at 6 p.m., Christ’s body would be treated for burial with spices purchased by Nicodemus (John...
Day Six: Friday Many have questioned why this day is called, “Good.” Here “good” hearkens back to Middle English, in which the word denotes piety or holiness. Jesus said, to the rich young ruler, that only God can be called good (Mark 10:18). Good Friday reflects this conversation, where Jesus...
Day Five: Thursday The most eventful day of Holy Week is Maundy Thursday. The word Maundy is a derivation of the Latin word, commandment. Jesus, in John 13:34, gave His followers this new commandment, “Love one another, as I have loved you.” On this day, Jesus sent Peter and John...
“I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word. And, to make a right beginning of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature,...