Week 4 – Forgiveness
Reading: “A Short Testament” by Anne Porter
Gospel: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 The prodigal son
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Scripture: : Joshua 5:9-12  •  Psalm 32  •  2 Corinthians 5:16-21  •  Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

 ​​Introduction: The psalm sets the tone this day: “Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away!” Happy are those who have “become the righteousness of God” in the merits of Christ Jesus. Happy are those for whom the forgiveness of God has “rolled away . . . the disgrace” of former times. Happy is the father at the return of his prodigal son. Happy are we that our sins are forgiven for Jesus’ sake. Rejoice!
 
Sermon: Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson:   ​"Remember Whose You Are"  

Sunday Worship (2nd Service), March 27, 2022
Welcome! Today is the Fourth Sunday in Lent. 

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 Week 3 – Compassion
Reading: “little prayer” by Danez Smith
Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 The barren fig tree
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​Scripture: Isaiah 55:1-9  •  Psalm 63:1-8  •  1 Corinthians 10:1-13  •  Luke 13:1-9

 ​​Introduction: The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.” The landowner’s ultimatum is forestalled by the gardener’s readiness to till the ground one more year. That is good news for all of us. Thanks be to God!
 
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 Week 2 – Mercy
Reading:  “To Live in the Mercy of God” by Denise Levertov
Gospel: Luke 13:31-35 Lament over Jerusalem
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Scripture: Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18  •  Psalm 27  •  Philippians 3:17-4:1  •  Luke 13:31-35

 ​​Introduction: Though we sometimes doubt and often resist God’s desire to protect and save us, our God persists. In holy baptism, God’s people have been called and gathered into a God-initiated relationship that will endure. Lent provides the church with a time and a tradition in which to seek God’s face again. Lent provides another occasion to behold the God of our salvation in the face of the Blessed One who “comes in the name of the Lord.”
 
Sermon: Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson:    "Count the Stars!"

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Week 1 - Faithfulness
Reading: "The Things That Count" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gospel: Luke 4:1-13   The temptation of Jesus

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Scripture: ​Deuteronomy 26:1-11  •  Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16  •  Romans 10:8b-13  •  Luke 4:1-13

​Introduction: These forty days called Lent are like no other. It is our opportune time to return to the God who rescues, to receive the gifts of God’s grace, to believe with the heart and confess with the mouth the wonder of God’s love in Jesus, and to resist temptation at every turn. This is no small pilgrimage on which we have just embarked. It is a struggle Jesus knew. It is a struggle Jesus shares. The nearness of the Lord, in bread and wine, water and word, will uphold and sustain us.​
Sermon: Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson:    ​"The Devil in the Wilderness"  

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Readings:  Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 / Psalm 51:1-17 / 2 Corinthians 5:20b–6:10 / Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
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Introduction: On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.

Sermon:  Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson  -  "Return to God with all Your Heart"

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