Posts from 2023 (Page 8)
E-Note March 31, 2023
Dear Peace Members and Friends, What a week ahead! Holy Week begins this Sunday with a festival that has two traditional titles: Palm Sunday and Sunday of the Passion. Not one or the other, but both. With palms in our hands; with our Sunday School children singing; with hymns and Scripture—we will remember when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last week of his life. We will also take part in the Matthew’s Passion of Jesus. Someone will take the role of Jesus; others…
3/31/2023 Lenten Daily Devotional
Philippians 2:5-11 5Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, 7but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, 8he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross. 9Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the…
CYF Blast & Family Tip Of The Week March 30, 2023
Dear Peace Families, Before this week’s message, I have an important announcement: VBS registration begins on Sunday! We are excited to welcome your children to a week of fun at this year’s Vacation Bible School! VBS will be June 26-29, 2023 at Peace, from 9:00am-12:00pm each day. This year’s VBS theme is Stellar, and we’ll be launching the kids on a cosmic quest, to Shine Jesus’ Light to the world. The week will be full of uplifting music, engaging Bible adventures, imaginative crafts, galactic snacks,…
3/30/2023 Lenten Daily Devotional
Isaiah 50:4-9a 4The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. 5The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward. 6I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide…
3/29/2023 Lenten Daily Devotional
Matthew 22:23-33 23The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, 24“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’ 25Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died childless, leaving the widow to his brother. 26The second did the same, so also the third, down to the seventh. 27Last of all, the woman…
E-Note March 28, 2023
Dear Peace Members and Friends, A reminder of tomorrow evening’s last midweek Lenten church night; worship with Holden Evening Prayer at 6:30pm preceded by dinner served in the Fellowship Hall, beginning at 5:30pm. In worship, we’ll conclude our Lenten sermon series, “Lessons in the Desert.” After 40 years in the desert, the Hebrew people are now finally at the Jordan River and ready to cross into the Promised Land. The people wonder: will there be a repeat of the crossing of the Red Sea when God parted the waters for them…
3/28/2023 Lenten Daily Devotional
Ephesians 2:1-10 1You were dead through the trespasses and sins 2in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. 3All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. 4But God, who is rich in mercy,…
3/27/2023 Lenten Daily Devotional
Acts 20:7-12 7On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul was holding a discussion with them; since he intended to leave the next day, he continued speaking until midnight. 8There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were meeting. 9A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, began to sink off into a deep sleep while Paul talked still longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell to the ground three…
3/25/2023 Lenten Daily Devotional
John 11:1-45 1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son…
E-Note March 24, 2023
Dear Peace Members and Friends, It was good to see so many of you out on Wednesday for Holden Evening Prayer and Lenten supper. Our thanks, too, to past Director of Music, MaryLynn Mennicke, for her part in worship. As we turn to Sunday, I realize that the days of Lent are dwindling and Holy Week is not far away! This Sunday is the 5th Sunday in Lent and with it comes a famous Gospel story of Jesus’ friend, Lazarus, and the sisters, Mary and Martha. In this scene, Jesus reveals his power over death by raising…
3/24/2023 Lenten Daily Devotional
Romans 8:6-11 6To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does…
CYF Blast & Family Tip Of The Week March 23, 2023
Dear Peace Families, In Lent we follow Jesus on the 40-day journey to the cross and beyond. During the season, many Christians have traditionally given up something—things like coffee or desserts—sacrificing something they love for 40 days, acknowledging that Jesus sacrificed even more for us. As we continue through Lent, I’ll be offering suggestions for things we might give up—though there won’t be anything tangible mentioned. This week, I propose giving up poor boundaries. If we’re being honest, most people…