Friends and Members:
As we are in the midst of Lent, spring arrived this week. One of the challenges of Lent is how it takes us along a road with Jesus that eventually ends at his crucifixion. The promise of spring is like that also. We watch for those signs which are seen in the first shoots of green from the tulips and daffodils which are a promise of a beautiful colorful flower . Along the way we watch with anticipation and some fear the fluctuations of the weather. A colder then usual January and February has slowed blossoms and flowers but they are now breaking forth in all their beauty. All of us know that freezing nights can still come upon us and we can lose those beauties of spring. We appreciate the beautiful flowers and their harbinger of spring but wish they would just wait so we can have them longer. A couple years ago the fruit trees here in the valley had beautiful blossoms and then came a killer frost and no peaches and very few apples came forth. When we think about Jesus life, how painful it would be if all we had to anticipate was the crucifixion and that was the end. The blossoms are cut down in all their beauty with nothing left but a withered and dead stem. The frost of evil also killed the Son of God. We who have faith live on this side of the crucifixion and as such know that the cross is empty because God so loved and loves us that God gave us the resurrected Christ! After the spring and all its’ glory comes the beauty and warmth of summer and the promise of new flowers and gardens and green trees and grass. Our fears of spring are not unlike the fears of those disciples after the crucifixion. But summer came and so did the resurrection!!
OPPORTUNITIES
Sunday, March 27th— 10:30 am Fourth Sunday of Lent
Scriptures: Psalm 32 and 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Sermon: “A New Creation”
Sunday, April 17th—Easter Service 10:30 am
Saturday, May 21st—Spring Bazaar - Flyers and Quilt Raffle Tickets are available
Proverb for the Week: “Many are the plans in a persons heart,, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevailss”
Proverbs 19:21:
Bob Edwards, Minister
As we are in the midst of Lent, spring arrived this week. One of the challenges of Lent is how it takes us along a road with Jesus that eventually ends at his crucifixion. The promise of spring is like that also. We watch for those signs which are seen in the first shoots of green from the tulips and daffodils which are a promise of a beautiful colorful flower . Along the way we watch with anticipation and some fear the fluctuations of the weather. A colder then usual January and February has slowed blossoms and flowers but they are now breaking forth in all their beauty. All of us know that freezing nights can still come upon us and we can lose those beauties of spring. We appreciate the beautiful flowers and their harbinger of spring but wish they would just wait so we can have them longer. A couple years ago the fruit trees here in the valley had beautiful blossoms and then came a killer frost and no peaches and very few apples came forth. When we think about Jesus life, how painful it would be if all we had to anticipate was the crucifixion and that was the end. The blossoms are cut down in all their beauty with nothing left but a withered and dead stem. The frost of evil also killed the Son of God. We who have faith live on this side of the crucifixion and as such know that the cross is empty because God so loved and loves us that God gave us the resurrected Christ! After the spring and all its’ glory comes the beauty and warmth of summer and the promise of new flowers and gardens and green trees and grass. Our fears of spring are not unlike the fears of those disciples after the crucifixion. But summer came and so did the resurrection!!
OPPORTUNITIES
Sunday, March 27th— 10:30 am Fourth Sunday of Lent
Scriptures: Psalm 32 and 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Sermon: “A New Creation”
Sunday, April 17th—Easter Service 10:30 am
Saturday, May 21st—Spring Bazaar - Flyers and Quilt Raffle Tickets are available
Proverb for the Week: “Many are the plans in a persons heart,, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevailss”
Proverbs 19:21:
Bob Edwards, Minister