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A list of people and situations to pray for.
This prayer walk guide was produced through an ecumenical collaboration, with support through a Worship Grant, and is used here by permission.
This sermon explores how Psalm 32 is a well-known Psalm for its pointed expression of the experience of guilt, its humble confession, and its joyful expression of peace that comes through being pardoned.
This sermon explores how Psalm 1 not only reminds us that life is a journey, but that there are two ways to travel this journey. The one brings happiness; the other brings tragedy.
Several resources focused on preparing to celebrate Lent.
An article exploring Ash Wednesday and the implications for believers.
An Ash Wednesday Meditation by Debra Rienstra
A worship service of repentance and renewal for Ash Wednesday
"On the third day he arose again from the dead." Simple words often capture life's most profound and important truths the best. How better, therefore, for Christians to make their most astonishing declaration about Jesus Christ than by this direct, unadorned, and so forthrightly clear confession?
Living as faithful disciples of Jesus requires making a lot of judgment calls.
Randy Smit sees all of life as a gift and the Lord’s Table as the “quintessential place for experiencing the hospitality of Christ. And so who’s at the table becomes pretty significant.” He suggests focusing less on “fencing the table,” more on opening it to children or others who may be left out.
The more that you experience God’s grace through the sacraments and in ordinary life, the more attention you’ll pay to who’s not at the Lord’s Table.
