Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Friday, April 15, Evening – Good Friday By Jeff Cheek Despair, but also Hope Read: Lamentations 3:16-24 “He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, ‘My splendor […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Friday, April 15, Morning – Good Friday Rev. Catherine Nance, Senior Pastor Sitting in Silence Read: Psalm 62:1-2 “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. God alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall never be shaken.” It is […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, April 14, Evening – Maundy Thursday Rick Isbell Towel and Basin People Read: John 13:3-5, 12-17 On Maundy Thursday evening one year in the church I served before coming to Church Street, we had a foot washing as part of the service. The clergy conducting the service […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, April 14, Morning – Maundy Thursday In Honor of Stephen Ministry Behold the Light Read from the Gospel of John “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Wednesday, April 13, Evening – Holy Week Day 3 By Dona Bunch The Scarcest Thing Read: Matthew 6:6 NIV “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Wednesday, April 13, Morning – Holy Week Day 3 By Rev. Tim Best, Senior Associate Pastor The Pioneer of Our Faith Read: Hebrews 12:1-3 NIV “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of April 12, 2022 Rev. Jan Buxton Wade Lord, we watched as you sat astride that lowly donkey, painting a scene that echoed your self-effacing mission on this earth. We may have strewn our jackets down to soften your stony ride; we may have waved our palm […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Tuesday, April 12, Evening – Holy Week Day 2 By John Eldridge The Abundant Life Read: John 10:10b “…I have come that they might have life and that they might live it more abundantly.” In 1971, when I was in my early 20’s, my older brother, Joe, was […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Tuesday, April 12, Morning – Holy Week Day 2 By Rev. Palmer Cantler, Associate Pastor Challenge for a Tuesday Read: Luke 20:1-2 NRSV “One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and telling the good news, the chief priests and the scribes came with the […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Monday, April 11, Evening – Holy Week Day 1 By Julia Kelley The Imitation of Christ Read: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 In 1500, Albrecht Dürer, the German artist and devout Catholic (who later embraced the Reformation), painted a self-portrait which now hangs in a Munich art museum. Dan and […]
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