The April Flame in the Cradle Newsletter is here.
Easter Sunday, April 8
Posted by – April 4, 2012
On Easter Morning there will be a Sunrise Service, 6:45 am, outside on the lawn (weather permitting). A service of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter Morning, 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 am. Services celebrating the Resurrection of Christ with music, word, prayer and a glorious transformation at the 9:30 service.
A Children’s Easter Egg Hunt will follow the 9:30 service. Be sure to bring a friend! Everyone is welcome!
We will also have an introduction of new members of our church family during the Easter services.
Good Friday Service
Posted by – April 4, 2012
Good Friday, April 6, 12 noon. A Community Ecumenical Good Friday Service at St. Teresa’s Catholic Church, 3000 N. Lompa. Rev. Rob and Rev. Dixie will be participating in this ecumenical service.
Maundy Thursday service
Posted by – April 4, 2012
Holy Thursday, April 5, 7:00 pm, Maundy Thursday service of Tenebre (lights) with communion commemorating the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples.
Prayer Walk
Posted by – April 4, 2012
You are invited to go on the “Prayer Walk” that will be available in the Aldersgate Room tonight from 5:00 to 6:30 pm as part of your Lenten Spiritual formation. The labyrinth is an ancient form of walking meditation and the Christians who could not go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem would walk it prayerfully. This portable one is a copy of the one on the floor Chartres, France.
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
Posted by – April 1, 2012
Rob’s Sermon for April 1, 2012 is Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit (Audio Link)
John 19:30a, Luke 23:46-47 (NRSV)
30When Jesus had received the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’
46Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.’ Having said this, he breathed his last. 47When the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, ‘Certainly this man was innocent.’
Today You Will Be With Me
Posted by – March 18, 2012
Rob’s Sermon for Sunday March 18. (Audio Link)
Luke 23:32, 39-43 (NRSV)
32 Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.
39 One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, ‘Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!’ 40But the other rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.’ 42Then he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ 43He replied, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.’
“Forsaken?”
Posted by – March 11, 2012
Dixie’s Sermon for March 11, 2012 Mark 15:29-34 (NRSV) can be listened to at Dixie’s 3-11-12 Sermon (Audio Link).
29Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, ‘Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30save yourself, and come down from the cross!’ 31In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, were also mocking him among themselves and saying, ‘He saved others; he cannot save himself. 32Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see and believe.’ Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.
33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’
Invisible Children
Posted by – February 23, 2012
A presentation about the use of child soldiers in the longest running war in Africa will be held at the church on Thursday, March 1, at 7:00 pm. Come and find out what we can do to help. For more information check their website: http://www.invisiblechildren.com.
