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CYF Blast March 7, 2024
Stay connected!Children, Youth and Family News March 7, 2024Dear Families and Friends of Peace,Last week I shared a bit about our Confirmation Retreat that was held at Gustavus on Saturday, February 24, and I’d like to do so again today. In case you missed it, the theme for our retreat, in coordination with our theme for the year, was “God’s Story, My Story,” and we focused on how we are all an important part of God’s ongoing story.One of my favorite…
3/7/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Numbers 21:4-9 4From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. 5The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” 6Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people,…
3/6/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
2 Corinthians 4:1-15 1Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God. 3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4In their case…
3/5/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
John 3:1-13 1Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” 3Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” 4Nicodemus said to him, “How can…
3/4/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Isaiah 6:1-8 1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.”…
3/2/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
John 2:13-22 13The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out…
E-Note March 1, 2024
Dear Peace members and friends, A good March 1st to you all! These are lively days at Peace what with Lent, Holy Week at the end of the month, along with a lot of ministry and activities in between. We begin March with worship on Sunday (9:30am). On this 3rd Sunday of Lent we are given the story of Jesus cleansing the Temple. We’ve never seen Jesus this mad; chasing cattle and sheep out, overturning tables, dumping money on the…
3/1/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 18For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” 20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since,…
CYF Blast February 29, 2024
Dear Families and Friends of Peace, Happy Leap Day! This last weekend, our Confirmation students had our winter retreat to Gustavus Adolphus College. Our theme, in coordination with our theme for the year, was “God’s Story, My Story,” and we focused on how we are all an important part of God’s ongoing story. Throughout the day, we enjoyed learning together during group time, eating meals in the Gustavus cafeteria, touring the campus, going bowling and playing laser tag, and growing…
2/29/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
Exodus 20:1-7 1Then God spoke all these words: 2I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3you shall have no other gods before me. 4You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or…
2/28/2024 Lenten Daily Devotional
1 Corinthians 10:1-13 1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and…
E-Note – Lent – February 27, 2024
Dear Peace Members and Friends, Lenten Midweek worship and fellowship continues tomorrow night with worship at 6:30pm, preceded by dinner being served, beginning at 5:30pm! One long time tradition of Lent is to focus on the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ—the events, the people—and its meaning for our lives. And that’s what we are doing this year, in a sermon series entitled, “God in Pain: The Suffering of Jesus….and Our Own Suffering.” Tomorrow night we will hear about a…