Daily Prayers of Confession – Lent (Day 3)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Daily Prayers of Confession – Day 2 (Lent)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Meditation for Preparation – Feb. 18th
Photo by Alfred Aloushy on Unsplash Read Our Passage for this Week: LUKE 5:1-16 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said
Daily Prayers of Confession – Day 1 (Lent)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Luke Resources
As we study the gospel of Luke this year, here are some resources to help you as you study along! Background/Overview: Bible Project Video: another creative overview of the book of Luke (plus other helpful resources!) by the folks at the Bible Project! The Gospel of Luke in 7 Minutes: a high energy creative overview of Luke in - you guessed it - 7 minutes! The Gospel of Luke video by the Lumo Project: the Lumo Project has created a video reading of all 4 gospels. They use middle eastern actors in a middle eastern setting with the narrator only using the words
How Great is Our Savior
Photo by ün LIU on Unsplash Read: Luke 4:31-40 Do you ever wonder if we see Christ only as we want to see him? To go further, do we push onto Him who we want Him to be? Maybe what you are molding your personal Christ into isn’t inherently bad. Maybe you think Christ is mostly love so that is how you mold him. Maybe you desire a Jesus who is powerful so that is how you mold Him. Maybe you like the idea that He is eternal so you mold him into your assurance of a heavenly home. In and of themselves none of
Who’s My Outsider?
Photo by Jonny Gios on Unsplash The weekend scene was festive in Nazareth! The hometown hero was in town for a visit. His neighbors had heard of his famous exploits. They knew his Mom and Dad, and, old rumors aside, Joseph’s family was good enough folk. Normal people. Solid woodworking. So when the Sabbath came and he was still in town teaching, the worship center was packed! “This is going to put Nazareth on the map!” they thought. The community had always been pretty upstanding, even if it was poor. The accusations about Nazareth being a backwater town just
I Need Much More Than a Snickers
Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash Read: Luke 4:1-13 Have you seen the commercials for Snickers bars? The ones with the slogan, “You’re not you when you’re hungry." There’s one in which a roommate turns into a gremlin because he hasn’t had lunch; he just needs a Snickers. In another, a lumberjack becomes whiny because he missed his breakfast; he just needs a Snickers. They’re hangry—so hungry that anger comes easily. I think many of us can relate, yes? I wish stopping my sin was as simple as eating a Snickers. You know what? Jesus never got hangry. Hungry,
The Root of Jesse
Photo by Eilis Garvey on Unsplash Read: Luke 3:21-38 In the passage that we are diving into this week, we are given a list of Jesus’ family lineage. Don’t you wonder why Luke did this? I know I do. Well, I am sure Carson will tell us (no pressure Carson), and maybe he can tell us why Luke dedicates space to this topic three chapters in when Matthew starts his book with a genealogy. Once again, no pressure. But I want to start here with this: We confess that Jesus is eternal. We confess that Jesus made everything, and through Him everything was made. We confess that Jesus is
Meditating On Our Passage (Luke 3:1-20)
Photo by Joshua Woroniecki on Unsplash Read Our Passage, Luke 3:1-22, for this Week... 3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 4
