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Palm Sunday—March 29, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Lessons: Mark 11:1–11 | Isaiah 50:4–9a | Psalm 31:9–16 | Philippians 2:5–11 | Mark 14:1—15:47
Dramatic reading of the Passion Gospel—no sermon.
Lent V—March 22, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Lessons: Jeremiah 31:31–34 | Psalm 51:1–12 | Hebrews 5:5–10 | John 12:20–33
Summary: In today’s Gospel, some Greeks have heard about Jesus, so they come and ask to see him. Jesus says to tell them he will suffer and die. We see Jesus today because he did suffer and die, was planted in the earth, and bears fruit in the lives of God’s people at work in the world.
Lent IV—March 15, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Lessons: Numbers 21:4–9 | Psalm 107:1–3, 17–22 | Ephesians 2:1–10 | John 3:14–21
Summary: Today’s Gospel contains the famous verse John 3:16. In our world where force seems to have become the preferred way to accomplish our goals, people quote that verse without understanding its real meaning. Accepting this verse means acknowledging the totality of God’s message. We must not see it as a magic spell; we are called to trust God, to be vulnerable, to be humble, to have courage, and to love one another.
Lent III—March 8, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Lessons: Exodus 20:1–17 | Psalm 19 | 1 Corinthians 1:18–25 | John 2:13–22
Summary: Today’s Gospel story of Jesus driving the moneychangers out of the temple is familiar because we hear it every year, but today’s lesson comes from John, who puts this story at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. It sets a context for Jesus’ ministry and shows us that God in Jesus is driving us out of the temple and into the world—into the body of Christ.
Lent II—March 1, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Lessons: Genesis 17:1–7, 15–16 | Psalm 22:23–31 | Romans 4:13–25 | Mark 8:31–38
Summary: God’s promise to Sarah and Abraham, told in today’s first lesson, is the beginning of a conversation with God’s people about how we should live. That conversation has its ups and down until we get to a new conversation, as show in today’s Gospel. Jesus tells the disciples that he must suffer, die, and be raised and that we must take up our own crosses and follow. We are called into authentic relationships with God and with each other based on giving ourselves away for the sake of those relationships. God has given us the greatest gift of all. In this modern world of consumption, are called to give away this precious gift.
Lent I—February 22, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Lessons: Genesis 9:8–17 | Psalm 25:1–10 1 | Peter 3:18–22 | Mark 1:9–15
Summary: In today’s first lesson, we hear of God’s covenant with Noah, symbolized by the rainbow. In our Gospel, Jesus is baptized, proclaimed God’s beloved, and driven out into the wilderness to be tempted. After receiving God’s covenant, Noah also had wilderness experiences. Most of us have been baptized and named God’s children, but our lives also have wilderness areas. In the midst of the wilderness, God chooses to remain with us, just as God was with Noah and with Jesus.
Ash Wednesday—February 18, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Lessons: Joel 2:1–2, 12–17 | Psalm 51:1–17 | 2 Corinthians 5:20b–6:10 | Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21
Summary: Ash Wednesday reminds us how to live in this broken world. In the midst of it all, God endures and remains steadfast and full of love. In the middle of the ashes of this broken world, there is a fire of God’s love ready to be rekindled. In the ashes on our foreheads is the fire of God calling us home.