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Current Worship Series

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"The Final Days" - Lenten Worship Series - March 5 - April 20, 2025

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Join us as we journey towards Easter. We will focus on the different accounts of the passion of the Christ found in the the four gospels during the season of Lent!

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"Sustain in Me" - March 5 - Ash Wednesday

Psalm 51 speaks to the depths of our human predicament, but also the hope inherent in our faith. It is David’s powerful and hope-filled plea, surrounded by an expression of brokenness and guilt and confession so strong that it threatens to overwhelm the possibility of redemption. Yet in God, David found the strength to heal the broken relationships. As we begin Lent, we express a hunger to be fixed, a hunger to be whole again. This hunger, this desire, it is within us. Jesus calls us to a faith journey that is deeply personal, offering healing to our hearts.​

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"Meeting at the Flagpole" - March 9

As we begin Lent we begin with a broad overview of how and why the four gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — tell Jesus’ story differently. We will focus in on Jesus’ prayer just before his arrest to spark reflection on Matthew, Mark, and Luke’s passion accounts.

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"Lookin for the Messiah" - March 16

We will begin with three distinct messianic passages from the Old Testament. This frames our understanding of how Jesus does and does not meet the expectations — especially around his triumphal entrance into Jerusalem. We will also consider how Jesus’ death connects to atonement ideas!

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"Yes I Am" - The Passion in Mark - March 23

In Mark’s gospel we will see how people’s reactions to Jesus’ crucifixion identify them as ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’ and how this impacts their responses to his death. We will enter the story, using our “holy imagination,” as we seek to hear and respond to Jesus in our ‘noisy’ world.

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"You Have Said So" - The Passion in Matthew - March 30

Using Matthew’s gospel we will seek to understand how the disciple’s narration of Jesus’ ministry and death invites us to ask better questions. Asking better questions, we will be lead into a right with God and into right relationships with other people.

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"A New Covenant to Remember" - The Passion in Luke - April 6

Luke’s passion narrative moves quickly yet pays special attention to who and what Jesus notices and gives attention to along this journey to the cross. We ask: What are the implications of these actions for us who seek to follow Jesus today?

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"A Word That Weeps" - The Passion in John - April 13

John looks at the passion story from the high, cosmic, God level. Proving the divinity of Christ is the overall focus on John’s gospel. From this divine perspective the passion story reveals to us a different power and perspective.

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" - April 17 - Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday is about remembering Jesus’ acts of service: washing the feet, sharing the bread. It is also about these powerful, symbolic acts leading into Jesus’ new command to love one another as he loves us. We often fail at this command. It is why we need grace to loosen these bonds.

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"Do Not Be Far From Me" - April 18 - Good Friday

In Psalm 22 David expresses the pain of human disconnection. It is a pain we can relate to — with God and with one another. Jesus experiences this on the cross. Yet God did not leave Christ there and God does not leave us there. God becomes fully present, becoming our new and living hope.

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"Steadfast Love: A New Cut" - April 20 - Easter Sunday

This day we run with Peter and John and we weep with Mary. We feel abandoned and out of control for a moment, as Mary did.  Then he speaks her name, our name. Joy and hope flood in. Love endures forever. This is a hope that we can build upon, living a life that strives to love God and neighbor.