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Sunday of the Passion – What Would Jesus Do? – April 5, 2020
We began this Lenten season without suspecting our lives would change so much before we even got to Holy Week. There are ways that our experience this Lent feels more real — more authentic — to Jesus’ 40 days and 40 nights in the desert — than any in my prior experience. This is a Lent when the regular busy-ness of the world — of work, of school, of any of our projects, or sports, or entertainments — has been put on hold.
Wilderness
Our wilderness doesn’t look like the Judean wilderness where Jesus prepared for his earthly ministry after his baptism, but we are absolutely bewildered. The path ahead of us is unclear. In this time of closures …
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Lent 4 – That God’s Works Might Be Revealed in Us – March 22, 2020
So That God’s Works Might Be Revealed in Us
My friends, we are walking gingerly through some strange times now. And it’s happening fast — our understanding changes every day, with new closures, new safety measures, and new counts of those suffering from COVID19. Our lives have changed quickly. How many of us could have predicted on Shrove Tuesday — the day before we began our Lenten season — that we would be saying Morning Prayer together by Facebook Live today?
While we began investigating plans to stream worship about a month ago, it was only a backup plan — to be sure we had thought through the possibilities of quarantine or self-isolation. And it was only last week, on …
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