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” […]
Everything [in] Between for Holy Week Read More »
Ack! I totally forgot to post this before our worship service today. My apologies! Here are the slides shared during the sermon today, “Something [in] Between: Lost & Found.” About what are we celebrating today? About what are we grumbling today? How do we seek lost folks in our world today? I think these images
Sermon slides for March 30: Lost & Found Read More »
This is another post in our ongoing experiment to give our online worshippers a method of seeing the slides shared during the sermon. No fun photos today; instead some fun facts…and some thoughts on parables. Insufficient Sleep = less than 7 hours32% of adults in Kendall and Grundy counties37% nationally20% nationally get 5 or less
Sermon slides for March 23: Rest & Growth Read More »
Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Can I confess something to you? (I mean, it is Lent after all, a season for confession.) I don’t always have a plan. Further, I don’t always know what I’m doing. Ok, that’s probably not a huge reveal. In fact, it might be pretty obvious. Still, seems important to admit.
Devotional Cards: a Confession Read More »
I’m offering a couple sermon slides this week, so the sermon slide blog post returns. Reading the story of Mary and Martha makes me think of my grandparents. Why? I’ll explain in the sermon. But let me introduce you to Charles and Irene: Beyond that personal connection, this gospel story is representative of a long-standing
Sermon slides for March 16 Read More »
What, really, is the point of all this Lent stuff? Excellent question. I can offer an answer, but, it’ll take me a moment to get there. (I know, shocking! You’re shocked!) It seems everywhere we turn we are faced with an article, a blog post, a news report, an op-ed, a video short, or an
Questioning the season Read More »
The early followers of Jesus observed with great devotion the final days of Messiah’s life, his death, and his resurrection. So Lent is the 40 days between today and Easter (not counting Sundays) during which we prepare ourselves for the events of Holy Week and Easter. The season of Lent is mostly known as a
An invitation to observe a Holy Lent Read More »
Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Last night at our Ash Wednesday worship experience, our Youth Group served as greeters, ushers, candle lighters, readers, and song leaders. They were amazing! For instance, upon being told that the main job of a greeter is to be a smiling, welcoming presence as people enter the building, the eyes
Ash Wednesday reflection Read More »
It has been said forewarned is fair-warned. Well, we are less than a week until the church season of Lent. The season starts with Ash Wednesday, March 5th. We gather for worship that day at 7:00pm. Our youth are in the midst of planning that worship experience…so it may be unlike other Ash Wednesday services
It’s the changing of the seasons Read More »
Our experiment with these sermon slide posts continues. Please let me know how helpful these posts are…or are not. How do we close the gap between who we currently are as a society and who we are called to be? Micah: Do justice, offer lovingkindness [hesed], walk humbly with God Jesus: Don’t be afraid, follow
Sermon slides for Feb. 23: Good Trouble On the Line Read More »
Christmas Eve at Minooka UMC
Wednesday, Dec. 24
4:00PM featuring Pop-up Pageant
9:00PM featuring Communion
