This Lent (March 5-April 19), we follow the Sanctified Art series “Everything in Between,” an invitation to navigate the polarities in our lives, like “faith & works” or “rest & growth,” or “grief & hope.” We will continue to follow Jesus’ ministry in the Gospel of Luke and imagine together where God can meet us “in between.” In it all we acknowledge complexity in our spiritual lives, that God shows up in shades of gray, rainbow hues and everywhere in between.
This Sunday, we mark the beginning of Holy Week with Palm Sunday, the day when we remember (and even sometimes re-enact) Jesus arriving in Jerusalem atop a donkey, not exactly the picture of military might that his people envisioned the Messiah would be.
We’re told of how the throngs of those who followed Jesus’ teachings were shouting in praise as he rode along, and how the Pharisees urged them to be quiet. We’re told of Jesus’ retort (or perhaps observation), “If they keep quiet, the very stones will shout out in their stead!”
In worship, we’ll be exploring where we encounter God amidst and between the extremes of shouting and silence. When is it important to be LOUD? To cry out? To shout? (literally and figuratively). What is the value of silence? How do we find inner quiet?
Join us at 11am in the Sanctuary and online to pray, sing, learn, praise, SHOUT, and be silent together!
In faith,
Amy
Holy Week
Sunday April 13th, 11am: Palm Sunday worship, Sanctuary
Thursday, April 17th, 7pm: Maundy Thursday Communion Service, Sanctuary
Friday, April 18th, 7pm: Good Friday Tenebrae Service, Sanctuary
Saturday, April 19th, 9-11am: Easter Egg Hunt, Memorial Park
Sunday April 20th: Easter Sunday!
9:30-10am: Easter Children’s Church
9:30-11am: Potluck Brunch in the Parlor
11am: Easter Festival Worship
Lent 2025 Theme: “Everything [in] Between”
Ash Wednesday – Intention & Action
March 9 – Faith & Works
March 16 – Stranger & Neighbor
March 23 – Rest & Growth
March 30 – Lost & Found
April 6 – Righteousness & Mercy
April 13 – Shouting & Silence
Maundy Thursday – Power & Humility
Good Friday – Acceptance & Resistance
Easter Sunday – Grief & Hope
Image credit: “I Believe” by Steve Prince, Inspired by Luke 19:29-40, Pen and ink on paper, © a sanctified art | sanctifiedart.org
