Posts from 2024 (Page 7)
3/23/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Mark 11:1-11 1When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’”…
E-Note March 22, 2024
Dear Peace Members and Friends, Here is the worship schedule along with some details: Thursday, April 6th, Maundy Thursday: 7:00pm Friday, April 7th, Good Friday: 7:00pm Sunday, April 9th Easter Sunday: 9:30am and 11:15am If you can’t join us in-person, all three services will be live streamed. If you wish to join us for the livestream at the time of worship, please go to our website, peacebloomington.org, and select the green “Watch Livestream” button on the welcome banner. Or, if…
3/22/2024 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 March 21, 2024
Dear Families and Friends of Peace, Wow. Thank you, everyone, for your support of our students—your gifts of prayer and donations completely blew us away, and we are so grateful for your generosity. Earlier this year, our group set a high goal of raising $5000 for our trip this summer to New Orleans for the ELCA National Youth Gathering. Not only did you all help us to meet that goal, but we exceeded it! I am reminded of our theme…
3/21/2024 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…
3/20/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Hebrews 3:7-19 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works 10for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’ 11As in my anger I swore, ‘They…
E-Note – Lent – March 19, 2024
Dear Peace Members and Friends, Our last Lenten Midweek worship and fellowship is tomorrow night with worship at 6:30pm, preceded by dinner being served, beginning at 5:30pm! In worship, we’ll praise and pray along with Holden Evening Prayer. We will also conclude our sermon series, “God in Pain: The Suffering of Jesus….and Our Own Suffering.” One of my favorite writers, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wrote in a letter after the kidnapping and death of her baby son, Charles Jr.: “I do…
3/19/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Mark 10:32-34 32They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was to happen to him, 33saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him…
3/18/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Acts 16:1-15 1Paul went on also to Derbe and to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek. 2He was well spoken of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium. 3Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4As…
3/16/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
John 12:20-33 20Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,…
E-Note March 15, 2024
Dear Peace members and friends, Easter is not far off now. And yet, between now and then is Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday—all connected and which, together, tell the story of our salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord. And this Sunday’s 5th Sunday in Lent worship (9:30am) is a preview of the next two weeks. The Gospel reading for the day (John 12:20-33) describes it. When some Greeks who come looking for Jesus at Passover, Jesus knew it…
3/15/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Hebrews 5:5-10 5So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”; 6as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” 7In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and…