“Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters.” – Isaiah 55
March 6, 2019 in the sanctuary: two service options: noon, 7pm (with choir)
A brief service of worship in which we get real with God about the sin and wounds in our lives and world. Receive ashes on your forehead, trusting that God makes everything new.
Beginning March 14 – Soup Supper and Evening Prayer
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A woman pours expensive perfume over the feet of Jesus; a father throws an amazing feast for a son who’s wasted his inheritance; God promises Abram an extravagant family: “look at the stars and count them if you can, so shall your descendants be.” In the prophet Isaiah, God says:
“Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.”
Our Lenten fasting is refusing “that which does not satisfy” so we can turn with open hands and receive gifts from God that are delightful and amazing: hope, forgiveness, wisdom, friends, food, worship, and each day. The other two traditional Lenten disciplines, serving and giving, are ways we share the abundance of what God gives to us.
Blessed are you