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Lent Week Five: Suffering

3/28/2017

This week, we read from Luke 23: 33-34, recalling the suffering of Jesus.

In Christie Purifoy's Roots and Sky pp. 70-74, she shares her dissatisfaction with living in an imperfect world while waiting for the Kingdom of God. However, she recognizes that God's invitation is to remember Christ, to rejoice in the day the Lord has made. How do you abide in this day, even as you remember Christ's suffering? How will you remember the promise of Christ to resurrect and return in the midst of your suffering?

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Suffering Sequence

Psalm 63:6-7
On my bed I remember you;
I think of you through the watches of the night.
Because you are my help,
I sing in the shadow of your wings.

Lent Week Four: Rejection

3/22/2017

For week four of Lent, we read from Matthew 26:69-65 and we remember Peter's denial of Jesus.

In Christie Purifoy's Roots and Sky pp. 121-122, she reminds us that we are getting nearer to the day when we remember the rejection of the Christ, not only Peter's rejection, but the world's rejection. How do you participate in the rejection of Christ? What do the last words of Christ have to offer us who are living in the “in-between”? Just as Winter reminds us of death, may we remember Christ's rejection, that we may then, with Spring, celebrate new life.

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Rejection Sequence

John 1:11-12
"He came to that which was his own,
but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who did receive him,
to those who believed in his name,
he gave the right
to become children of God."

Lent Week Three: Confidence

3/15/2017

The third week of Lent, we remember the trial of Jesus, and the unbelief of the religious leaders. What do you hope for? What do you wish you could believe, if only you could see it?

In Roots and Sky by Christie Purifoy, pages 115-116, she reminds us that hope does not come with spring, that to hope then is to hope too late. Faith and hope come in winter, when the sky is grey and cold and the flower bulbs are buried deep in the ground. This week, keep your eyes open for “miracles in the rain”. How is God “tugging us and this whole wintry, weary world toward new life”?

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Confidence Sequence

Hebrews 11:1

"Now faith is confidence
in what we hope for
and assurance about
what we do not see."

Lent Week Two: Uncertainty

3/7/2017

As we begin the second week of Lent, journeying to the cross, we remember how Judas betrayed Jesus. How have you felt betrayed or uncertain of the future? What are the winds in your life that threaten your faith?

During this season, I'm reading Roots and Sky by Christie Purifoy, and on pages 114 & 115 she talks about the "cold, March wind". This week, notice the ways in which you and those around you might be feeling that “cold, March wind.” How might you “believe in green, growing abundance when the wind blows like this?”

Perhaps this scripture might be a handhold on a windy day?

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