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Spring

4/28/2022

Spring is in the air! Spring is such a glorious time! The cold and barrenness of winter gives way to the new life of spring, trees begin to bud, flowers begin to blossom, the air is filled with the songs of birds. Everywhere there is life springing up. It seems so fitting that springtime follows Easter. The Easter miracle is not just a symbol of new life, it is also the power to find love and new life in a risen Lord. Past failures are forgiven, guilt and shame are washed away. Our relationships are made new with God and with others. Power for living is found in God's loving grace, as we open our lives to God's plan and purpose for our lives. Open your heart and life to God's amazing love!

(Verse of the week)
Jesus said--I have come that they might have life, and
have life abundantly! (John 10.10)

(Prayer of the week)
Almighty and Loving God, thank you your great love and the promise of new life found in Jesus. Help me to open my life to new strength and life found in
your amazing love. Thank you for the gift of today. And may my life touch others with love like a candle in the night. Amen.

Blessings –Pastor TJ

(quote of the week)
It is not how much you do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving --Mother Teresa

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Earth Day

4/21/2022

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This week we celebrate Earth Day, when we appreciate our world and all its benefits and also reflect on how we care for it. In Genesis “the book of beginnings” chapter two God placed people in the garden to work it and take care of it. We are literally commissioned by God to steward the earth like a gardener or farmer would their garden or field of crops. It is never ours; it is only entrusted to us to appreciate and use wisely. How are you doing with God’s commission to steward our world? It is full of bounty and blessing to enjoy, but we should be good stewards of our Creator.

(verse of the week)
The earth is the LORD’S, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it;
for He founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the waters. (Psalm 24.1,2)

(Prayer of the week)
Almighty and Loving God, thank you for the blessing of the universe and all that you created and the special blessing of our world. Help me to be a steward of all that you have blessed us with, and may I also steward each day of my life giving back to you by the way I use my gifts and talents. May your Spirit fill me and make me a new creation empowered by your grace and love. Fill me with your love, and may others see you in all I do, and give you thanks. Amen.

Blessings –Pastor TJ

(quote of the week)
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out,
Like shining from shook foil. . .
Oh, morning at the brown brink eastward springs--
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast
And with ah! Bright wings—Gerald Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”

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What’s Good About Good Friday?

4/13/2022

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This is Holy Week when we will celebrate Easter, but before Easter we will celebrate Good Friday --a time when we remember the willing suffering and sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. You might ask, "What's good about Good Friday?"-- We believe that Christ's willing sacrifice upon the cross paid the penalty for any sins and failures in our life and offers us new life and hope. Good Friday is good because as the old preacher once said, "It's Friday but Sunday’s coming!" Just as the tragedy of the cross became the triumph of the resurrection, we too know that God can take our greatest tragedies and through His eternal power turn them into triumph. On Easter we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord with special exuberance, but the impact of Easter and the resurrection of Christ touches us each and every day of our life. We know that the depth of Christ’s love is without limit, for He suffered all that could be suffered for us. In the cross and resurrection, we find forgiveness for sin and failure, and hope for new life now and through all eternity. Our heart may rest assured that God’s peace is a lasting peace. And as we face trials and tribulation, we can be confident that God can take the most poignant tragedies and turn it into the greatest triumph. Even death does not have the final word, for we know that we will one day be re-united with those who love God along with our Lord in eternity. God has taken the tragedy of the cross and turned it into the triumph of the resurrection. Why? --Because of God's amazing love! This living hope touches our life each day. Whatever you are facing, remember God loves you and God's love is life-changing! Peter reminds us of this hope:

(Verse of the week)
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. (1 Peter 1.3-9)

(Prayer of the week)
Almighty and Loving God, thank you your great love expressed by Jesus on the cross, and thank you for your forgiving grace. Forgive me of wrongs and shortcomings of the past, and fill my life with your peace and hope. May each day I know your incredible love. And may my life touch others with love like a candle in the night. Amen.

Blessings in Christ!—Pastor TJ

(quote of the week)
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches --C.S. Lewis

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Palm Sunday

4/6/2022

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This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Palm Sunday is a celebration of the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, where people shouted praise and children laid palm branches along the path. Jesus entered the city willingly even though he knew trouble and adversity and suffering awaited. Jesus did it willingly to show his love for each of us. Easter week reminds us more than anything else of the depth of God’s love –a love so great that Christ was willing to give his own life that we would know forgiveness and new life. This is more than a religious truth, it is the promise of a personal relationship with a risen Lord. In Christ we have the promise of love beyond measure, of forgiveness and new life, and the promise of a future filled with the hope that God has a plan and purpose for our lives. Open your heart anew to the power of God’s life-changing love.

(Verse of the week)
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. (John 13.34, 35)

(Prayer of the week)
Almighty and Loving God, thank you for the privilege of opening my heart and life to your love and power. Help me to discover anew your love and learn to trust you for strength. Fill me with your hope and peace and joy, and may I touch others with your love. Amen.

Blessings in Christ—Pastor TJ

(quote of the week)
Do small things with great love—Mother Teresa

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