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LENT 2025 @ CENTRAL
We begin with Ash Wednesday Services at 12 noon (in the Chapel) and 6:30 p.m. (in the Sanctuary).
Our Lenten Theme this year is “Nourish.” We will look closely at the Gospel stories of nourishment, satisfaction, and providence from Ash Wednesday, March 5, through Easter, April 20. Over the next 40 days, plus Sundays, we will lift up a path whereby our church can share in nourishing our community. What is God calling us to be, become, and do in this season? How do we respond to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of our community?
Here is the Sunday worship series for you to pray, discern, and study with one another:
March 9, 2025
Scripture: Luke 4:1-13
Sermon Title: Full-Filled
Theme: Well, Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and he is faced with the emptiness. So, if you are full, we must face the world's emptiness. All things held in balance.
March 16, 2025
Scripture: Luke 13:31-35
Sermon Title: A Vision for a Well-Nourished World
Theme: Embracing emptiness enables us to hold the lament of a world of lack. What is Christ’s vision beyond the lament?
March 23, 2025
Scripture: Luke 13:1-9
Sermon Title: Rub a Little Dirt on It
Theme: When you first do not succeed, try and try again. What may not be working may need to be let go — and that is okay. Hungry in the US have been hungry generationally — it is time to cut that out.
March 30, 2025
Scripture: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Sermon Title: Toward True Reparation
Theme: The parable of the losts invites us to think and feel differently about scarcity. What happens when our sights are set on where God is guiding us?
April 6, 2025
Scripture: John 12:1-8
Sermon Title: Dining with Life
Theme: There is no sense in Mary’s generosity. It flips the world’s value system — when facing the world’s problems, we may need to adjust our values to Mary’s . . .
April 13, 2025 (Palm/Passion Sunday)
Scripture: Luke 19:28-40
Sermon Title: Nourishing Community
Theme: A parade toward Passover — liberation deserves a celebration, do you think?!
April 20, 2025 (Easter)
Scripture: Luke 24:1-12
Sermon Title: This is the Story
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RESOURCES
Berry, Thomas. The Great Work: Our Way into the Future and The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century; Chilton, Mariana. The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--and Start Again (Food, Health, and the Environment); Compton, John. The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors; Epperly, Bruce G. Walking with Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism; MacAskill, William. What We Owe the Future (United Women of Faith book); Riches, Graham. Food Bank Nations (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment); Rieger, Joerg, and Rowe, Terra Schwerin. Liberating People, Planet, and Religion: Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity; and, Winne, Mark. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty.
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