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Confession

Daily Lenten Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, February 18 By Rev. Tim Best Confession Read Daniel 9:1-14 Confession is good for the soul, but it is not easy. The human ability to resist confession is nearly instinctual. Confession is a vulnerable act wherein we name our shortcomings, our needs, and the temptations that endanger […]

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Evening Prayer – February 17

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 17, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade In your darkness there is no darkness. With you, O Lord, the deepest night is as clear as the day. (Taize chant)  Come, evening, come!  The sky turns to ash and we recall wisdom’s teaching that there […]

February 17, 2021 by
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Forgiveness

Daily Lenten Devotions from Church Street UMC Wednesday, February 17, Morning By Nancy Zirkle, March 6, 2019 Forgiveness Read Psalm 31 As we begin the season of Lent, consider what comes between you and God. Confession causes us to face our actions and thoughts, thereby making it frightening. However, it can also be a bridge […]

February 17, 2021 by
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Transformation

Daily Lenten Devotions from Church Street UMC Wednesday, February 17, Evening By Rev. Pat Clendenen, Visitation Pastor, March 26, 2017 Transformation Read Isaiah 58:1-12 The Israelites of Isaiah’s day had a handle on rituals. Sackcloth, ashes, and fasting were something they had mastered. Yet, it never changed their behavior. Amazingly, they wondered why things stayed […]

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Evening Prayer – February 16

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 16, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Designer of the Filmy Moon, the Evening Wind, and the Quiet Stars, somewhere out there you are watching, you are listening.  And though some may think it foolish, we know you have dreams we may each fulfill […]

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Evening Prayer – February 15

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 15, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.  I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope. Because of the […]

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Evening Prayer – February 11

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 11, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade As the sun disappears behind the heavy clouds, our prayers of thanksgiving rise to you, Loving God. Looking heavenward, our hearts teem with abundant gratitude for even the smallest things which, in our haste, we may have […]

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Evening Prayer – February 10

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 10, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade As you have etched your signature in holy shades of light and dark across the sky above us, you have engraved your name upon every living part of your creation. Even as you answer to many names, […]

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Evening Prayer – February 9

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 9, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Your evening sky, Creator of Rest, becomes the color of silt and we anticipate the silent grandeur with which you close each of our days. As we gaze at your soft glory, let us enter the closet […]

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Evening Prayer – February 8

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family February 8, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Evening Host, you call us with slashes of orange light seeping through the darkening horizon; your invitation beckons us home again into the enfolding freedom from our daily routine. Here in this calm closing, you offer […]

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