Tonight come see what Rev. Katelin Warren is up to! "Finding God on the Journey" Midweek Lenten Worship Service 6:30 p.m. - FCC Assembly Room

Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013

This Sunday's Service

As we journey through Lent, we are constantly surprised at the many and varied ways that we find God. This Sunday's sermon will be one of those experiences, because I am going to be as surprised as all of you. At this point I have no idea what it is going to be about! Maybe that in itself is what we should be considering during this Lenten journey: allowing the unplanned discoveries of God to take the place of our carefully controlled way of organizing things. After all, most of the things we think we have control over are really just illusions that we create in our own minds. It's probably no different with sermons. Where will we discover God this Sunday morning during that 15-minute window of time called "Sermon"? Come and find out. It will be a surprise for all of us!

The Meeting House Choir will sing Jerusalem by Thomas Roseingrave and Be Thou My Vision arranged by Kinley Lange. The Decibells will play Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley arranged by Anna Laura Page. Organist Gavin D. Craig will play Recit de Chromhorne by François Couperin for the Prelude* and Fugue sur la Trompette also by François Couperin. The congregational hymns will be God of Abraham and Sarah (CONSTANTINE), Fairest Lord Jesus (SCHÖNSTER HERR JESU), and God is My Strong Salvation (MEIN LEBEN).

Sunday Feb. 3, 2013

How many weddings have you been to where the familiar passage from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians is read? After a while, we can get a little tired of "love is patient, love is kind, . . . ." Sometimes familiarity can breed contempt! While the words that spoke to the church in Corinth are useful for a couple starting out in marriage, they have a much deeper meaning for us in all aspects of our lives. In fact, they reflect the foundation of who we are as individuals created in God's image, but we have to take those words to heart. Love, love, love . . . and the greatest of these is love.

The Meeting House Choir will sing Jesus, Savior, Lord, Lo, to Thee I Fly arranged by Shanti Rasanayagam and Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love by Dale Grotenhuis. Organist Gavin D. Craig will play Prelude in G Major by Dietrich Buxtehude, Wie lieblich schoen, Herr Zebaoth by Jean Langlais, and Fugue in G Major by Dietrich Buxtehude. Our congregational hymns will be I Come With Joy (Dove of Peace), Though I May Speak (Gift of Love), and In Christ There is No East or West (McKee).