April 2025

Sermon slides for Easter Sunday, April 20: Grief & Hope

Those participating in worship online won’t be able to see the slides we show to enhance the sermon, so our experiment with posting sermon slides here continues. Perhaps this Easter morning we can try some different words, try so other ways to talk about Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.  If we say, as some scriptures

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Order of Worship for Holy Saturday, April 19

There is no bulletin for today, only slides. So this post is a way for our online friends to follow the order of worship. ENTERING MUSIC WELCOMING SINGING “Jesus, Remember Me” UMH #488Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom READING SCRIPTURE Job 14:1-12 (Common English Bible)14 All of us are born of women,    have few days,

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Sermon slides for Palm Sunday, April 13: Shouting & Silence

Whenever I offer slides to (hopefully) enhance the sermon experience, I also try to post them here so our online audience has access to them. All Lent we have been following Jesus’ journey from Galilee to Jerusalem as told in the gospel according to Luke. In today’s reading, Jesus finally arrives in Jerusalem. Traditionally, we

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Everything [in] Between for Holy Week

This weekend, the season of Lent morphs into Holy Week with Palm Sunday. “The space between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday is worth lingering in, now more than ever. As society becomes increasingly polarized, Holy Week challenges the dichotomies that divide humanity into categories like powerful and powerless, enemy and friend, innocent and guilty, “us”

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