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Prepare for Worship (weekend of December 17th)
Greetings, Saints at Rio! From out here in Vacationland, it’s Mark Lautenschlager filling in for Ryan Brasington who is ill this week. Pray for Ryan, if you would. I’m doing my best to channel my inner Brasington today, I hope you find the subject matter as interesting as I did. This…
For the week of December 13
Prepare for Worship (weekend of December 10th)
Hey Church! We have so much to celebrate in worship this weekend! It is our third Sunday in Advent, we will light the Shepherds’ candle to remember how they were told of Jesus’ birth, Tom will preach on the third “Emmanuel Song” from Isaiah 11, we will…
For the week of December 6
Prepare for Worship (weekend of December 3rd)
Hey Church! Today’s reflection is on pain. It has been heavy on my mind as of late, so I hope something of my own experience on the subject will engender a timely word of encouragement to some of you who suffer. If this is not written for you, perhaps it is written for your ministry to a friend or neighbor. We all experience pain in various forms and degrees. For…
For the week of November 29
Prepare for Worship (weekend of November 26)
Hey Church! This Sunday we will leave the season of Pentecost behind (be honest, who remembered that we were still in Pentecost?) and enter into the four-week season of Advent. The four Sundays preceding Christmas have traditionally been a time when Christians long for Christ’s coming (“advent” means “appearance; arrival; coming”)–both…
For the week of November 22
Prepare for Worship (weekend of November 19)
Hey Church! This weekend I want to encourage you to bring your authentic self to God in worship. It is all too easy for us to “play church” on Sundays in a way that doesn’t result in a genuine encounter with the Holy Spirit. We don’t do this on purpose, of course. At some point along the way, we believed the lie that church is a place that requires…
For the week of November 15
View Previous Weeks Welcome to Week 3 of Awaken and to Acts chapter 4. This week, we see the immediate aftermath of Peter and John’s arrest by the Sadducees and being dragged before the Sanhedrin where they were threatened for teaching about Jesus. How they responded gives us our topic for this week: Boldness. Over the next five days we will consider what it means to be…