Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of May 22, 2024 Written by Rev. Catherine Nance Tonight’s prayer is adapted from the one used this past Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2024. The idea for the prayer petition came from a worship resource for the Reformed Church of America. O God, who always listens to […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of May 15, 2024 Written by David Martin, Church Street member Tonight’s prayer is one that church member, David Martin, wrote and shared with Pastor Catherine recently. This is a prayer that he offers each morning. Perhaps it could be your morning prayer as well. Magnificent Creator […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of May 8, 2024 Written by Steve Richardson O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come: Open our minds and hearts to sensing your closeness as you hear our prayers. We’re thankful for the sphere of your creation we call Earth, for […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of April 24, 2024 Written by Rev. Tim Best This week’s prayer is sent from Rev. Tim Best as he serves as a Marshal for the 2020 (2024) General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. God of all nations and peoples, Our hearts are filled with thanks and […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of April 17, 2024 Written by Rev. Catherine Nance O God, we pause at the end of the day with others in our church family to offer prayer. As we read these words, we imagine members of our church and what they mean to us. Some are […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of April 10, 2024 Written by Steve Richardson God in heaven and in our midst: Springtime surrounds our senses. Bright colors of flowers and trees’ green leaves, scents from fresh blossoms, sounds of singing birds (most of them always sound happy, except for the crows who seem […]
Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday By Rev. Catherine Nance Then… Read: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 “Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand…” We all know the scripture reading for […]
Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Saturday, April 30, 2024 – Holy Saturday By John Eldridge Surprise Read: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” (NKJV) I love Springtime; but then I love all the seasons. The earth warms and all the plants and trees begin to […]
Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Friday, March 29, 2024 – Good Friday By Rev. Tim Best, Senior Associate Pastor God With Us Psalm 22 I was in college when I learned that Jesus’s “cry of dereliction” was from Psalm 22. It shouldn’t have been a surprise that Jesus relied upon scripture to express himself […]
Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, March 28, 2024 – Maundy Thursday By Dan Kelley Turn Around and Repent Read: Psalm 139 In January 1994, a 6.7 earthquake hit the San Fernando Valley of California centered on the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge. There were two major 6.0 aftershocks and hundreds of smaller ones. […]
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