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Third Sunday of Lent: Truth Telling for Healing
Have you ever walked along the shores of Lake Michigan or another body of water and picked up stones as the waves lap across them? Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to find a piece of glass that has been tumbled through the waters. When you pick these objects up, do you ever wonder what their…
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Fourth Sunday of Lent: The Beauty of Mosaic
Prolonged times of difficulty can impede our ability to stay creative. The picture of our lives is dulled and hope for a brighter future can fade. We need a touch of inspiration to awaken us from our sleep, as we hear in one of this week’s healing stories. We also awaken to our agency to…
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Fifth Sunday of Lent: Restoration
In the season of Lent, we often focus on our spiritual health and how we might expand it or rather just nurture it with more intention, so that we may be prepared to celebrate the resurrection, the new life that is possible as we embrace the ways of love that Christ has taught us. For…
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Palm Sunday: Holy, Wholly
We have seen that the stories of Jesus’ healing ministry are filled words and deeds. Our ability to forgive ourselves and others is the foundation that can transform infirmities and allow us to move on. We integrate our beliefs and actions for the health of the whole. The parade of compassionate power we celebrate today…
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Holy Thursday: Extravagant Love
Online Worship @ 6pm In person Communion & Symbolic Hand Washing @ 7-8pm at FUMC You are invited to Holy Thursday to remember that we are healed and still healing. A woman with an alabaster jar anointed Jesus out of love and devotion. We receive an anointing to prepare ourselves to receive the Spirit of…
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Good Friday: Healed and Still Healing
Online Worship @ 6pm In person Anointing & Prayers at the Cross @ 7-8pm at FUMC We invite you to continue in Holy Week Worship on Good Friday, this time, “staying with” Jesus in his moment of suffering. The temptation is always for us to move to Easter Resurrection quickly as possible, and this may…
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Easter Sunday: Christ has risen!
In person Communion @ 8:30-9:15am at FUMC Online Worship @ 10am Christ the Lord is risen! Alleluia. Come, join us for Easter as we sing our praise and raise our joys and triumphs high with trumpets declaring that love’s redeeming work is done. We will celebrate the Risen Christ with a virtual choir, brass, handbells,…
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Second Sunday of Easter: Unless I See
You are invited to join us for Coffeehouse Worship! “Thomas, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So, the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark…
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Third Sunday of Easter: Touch and See
Last week the Gospel lesson emphasized seeing; today the focus is on touching. Jesus is trying to ground the disciples’ faith in the reality of his presence, in the concreteness of his being. He told them to touch him; he ate in front of them. He was announcing that he was real. Our lives are…
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Fourth Sunday of Easter: Listen to My Voice
We continue the sensory journey through Eastertide and come to hearing this week. In Jesus’ parable of the good shepherd, he says that the sheep listen to his voice. He is speaking of those in front of him and those of other folds. Who are these others? We don’t really know. There is lots of…
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Fifth Sunday of Easter: Abide in Me
Abiding in the presence of Christ is our call this week. How do we abide? More importantly, what does abide mean? Let’s spend some time abiding in Christ. Silence, music and Scripture can lead us to the ways of abiding. We are practicing this abiding in Christ as we worship together with the hope that…
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Sixth Sunday of Easter: No Greater Love
You're invited to join us for Coffeehouse Worship! We are called this day to celebrate the love that has been poured out on us and then to strive to exemplify this love in our lives. How do we shape a life of loving in a difficult world? We embrace the idea of “no greater love”…