BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family Holy Saturday, April 11, 2020 Pastor Jan O Lord, today is a day of holy silence, as Jesus rests lifeless in the tomb, and as the sentries keep vigil. Help us also to keep vigil as the world mourns the heinous crucifixion of […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family Good Friday, April 10, 2020 Pastor Jan Today we pause to remember your sacrificial love, O Savior of the World, even though the message of the cross is difficult to take. We struggle with your teaching that strength is found in weakness, for […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family April 9, 2020 Pastor Jan Where charity and love prevail, there God is ever found. The words of the hymnist were never more evident than on this Maundy Thursday, O Lord Most High. On that long-ago Thursday, we remember that the tenderness of […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family April 8, 2020 Pastor Jan O Astonishing One, you come to us in surprising ways. We ask for success, but you teach us acceptance. We ask to be loved, but you ask us to love others. We long for the easy road, but […]
Though we won’t be able to join together in person during Holy Week, Church Street offers several offerings online that will honor these most important days of the Christian year: Jesus’s death and miraculous resurrection. Our YouTube Channel is linked here. Holy Week Worship Opportunities: +Stations of the Cross: A new display of 14 masterworks […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family April 7, 2020 Pastor Jan Come, Holy Spirit, and visit us in our homes, workplaces, or wherever we find ourselves this day. May your personal touch be upon each one caught up in this mysterious virus malady and turn our thoughts to you […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family April 6, 2020 Pastor Jan O Master of Life, your glories abound in the springtime. Your wonders are the treasure found in the field. Trees are covered in green lace; cascading blossoms dance in the air. We give thanks for this sacred awakening […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family April 5, 2020 (Palm Sunday) Pastor Jan O Lord of All That Is, through this Lenten season we have made our weary way. Many times, however, we confess we have lost our direction, entangling ourselves in the brush by the roadside. But just […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family April 4, 2020 Pastor Jan Faithful Presence, we seek your Spirit this day. The prophet Isaiah once wrote: “O Lord, you have hidden your face from us.” But we know it is really the other way around. We have hidden ourselves in the […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Daily Prayers of the Church Street family April 3, 2020 Pastor Jan O Love Everlasting, your well indeed is deep and you never tire of offering your children living water. You hold out the cup of acceptance, not to the strong and self-possessed alone, but most assuredly to the weak, […]
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