Scriptures: Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-21 Jesus tells a retells a strange story from the book of Numbers to explain his idea of the cross. In this Lent, what does the cross mean to us… and how does that meaning shape our commitment to the one who came to “save the world, and not condemn it”?
Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17The Ten Commandments have a long and storied history in our culture and imagination… but we often miss the law that lands in the center of them, and might transform our relationship with God, and with one another.
Scripture: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16A new name broadens blessing and belonging for Abraham and Sarah, and their descendants… how might we be challenged to release our old “names” and ways of being so that we might be renamed as a more inclusive and blessing people?
Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17After the flood, God makes a promise (and a rainbow) of protection over all creation. Can we, as part of that creation take up that promise for each other, and for all the earth?
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10Ash Wednesday invites us into Lent, not as a self-improvement plan, but as witness to how God draws near to us as we are… and how that grace still transforms us. We are dust, we say this night… but we are also God’s.