Rev Bill

I have posted my sermon for tomorrow.

It’s based on Jeremiah 31:31-34 and John 12:20-33 and entitled “It’s Time!”

Here’s a portion of it:

We are 5 weeks into our season of Lent – 5 weeks into our journey with Christ and His disciples as they journey to Jerusalem – where Jesus will be crucified for our sins. As we journey with Christ on that road to Jerusalem, we see His commitment to His task. As we journey with Him it is our prayer that we will become more committed to Him.
This is a time for reflection upon our relationship with Christ — our relationship with God.
This is a time for us to recommit our lives to God and to Christ — to living in His ways.
This is a time for us to turn to Christ — and recommit our lives to following Him — to being the person He calls us to be.
It is a time for us to see the new life God offers us through Christ — and accept it — and live in God’s new ways.

New life.
This is the message of Lent.
New life because of the death of Christ.
New life through a new commitment to Christ.

That’s the message of our texts for today.

And the poem I use in the sermon:

GOING THROUGH LENT
IS A LISTENING.
WHEN WE LISTEN
TO THE WORD,
WE HEAR
WHERE WE ARE SO
BLATANTLY
UNLIVING.
IF WE LISTEN TO THE WORD,
AND HALLOW IT
INTO OUR LIVES,
WE HEAR
HOW WE CAN SO ABUNTANTLY
LIVE AGAIN.
Ann Weems. “A Listening.” Kneeling In Jerusalem. p. 33

You can read and sermon here.

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