John 11 Selected Verses Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,[a] “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But […]

The lectionary readings – the 3-year cycle of scripture that most churches use to mark time throughout the church year – has us in the middle of three weeks of HUGE long scripture readings.  Last week it was 38 verses of scripture to reflect on – though we stepped out of the lectionary cycle for last […]

DOWNLOAD BULLETIN “LEAN INTO GOD” I have been praying a lot about what message I want bring to you today – those of you who have gathered in the sanctuary, those who are watching online or a viewing a recording later, and those who are reading these words from an email or on our website.  What […]

John 3:1-17 Have you had a 2am conversation recently?  One of those conversations where the pretenses that we use to protect ourselves from the glare of the daylight are removed and under the cover of darkness the true questions are asked?  Have you laid in bed with a lover and shared the deepest fears and […]

Matthew 4:1-11 It wasn’t until Jesus had already spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness was he tempted.  It wasn’t until he was, as the scripture says, ‘famished’, did the ‘Tempter’ come to him.  After 40 days alone in the wilderness fasting Jesus was tempted to give into evil and renounce the name that […]