Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, March 12, 2023 — Evening By Steve Richardson Symbols Read: John 13:34-35 “…Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples…” From small to large, symbols are everywhere in Church Street’s spaces. Even the […]
Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, March 12, 2023 — Morning By Suzanne Matheny We Have Work to Do Read: Luke 24:13 “Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.” Our church history hearkens to the Civil War division in America – a […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of March 8, 2023 Rev. Catherine Nance O God who created the world, how beautiful is your creation! How good it has been lately to look up at the night sky! The full moon last night was so bright! We know the cycle will begin again …. […]
Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, March 5, 2023 — Evening By Sarah Elliott Fasting from Fear Read: Psalm 27:13-14 “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” In […]
Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, March 5, 2023 — Morning By Rev. Rick Isbell Fasting from What to What? Read: Matthew 6:17-18 Fasting is normally not a real popular word. When I was growing up I heard that others fasted from meat on Fridays. As I grew and began reading and studying the […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of March 1, 2023 Rev. Catherine Nance O God who shaped us from the dust, it is hard to believe that Ash Wednesday was a week ago. We had good intentions. We have good intentions. Forgive us for not following through or not truly paying attention to […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, February 26, 2023 — Evening By David Lineberger Who has Moved? Read: Psalm 27:8-9 “You have said, ‘Seek My face.’ My heart says to You, ‘Your face, LORD, do I seek.’ Hide not Your face from me. Turn not Your servant away in anger, O You who […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, February 26, 2023 — Morning By Laura Still When Jesus Came to Jordan Read: Matthew 3:13-17, 4:1-11, Mark 1:9-13, Luke 21-23, 4:1-13 John 1:29-34 “When Jesus came to Jordan, to be baptized by John He did not come for pardon, but as the Sinless One. He came […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of February 22, 2023 Rev. Catherine Nance As we bow in prayer together tonight, O God, we cannot help but call you Scooper of Dust. That doesn’t quite sound so holy, but yet, that is how you are described in one of our Sacred Stories. You are […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023 — Evening By Rev. Tim Best, Senior Associate Pastor Depending on the Divine Read Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51:1-17; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; and Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 Lent has always been a time for me to reflect upon my great need for God. I […]
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