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Easter to Pentecost 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
posted on Apr 4, 2024 Terror and peace
An excerpt from Luke 24:36b-39a Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you frightened, a...
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Easter to Pentecost 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
posted on Apr 3, 2024 Seeing our neighbors
An excerpt from Acts 3:3-4 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for alms. Peter looked intently at him, as did John, and said, "Look at us."
Reflection from Bryan Cones, Trinity: "...
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Easter to Pentecost 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
posted on Apr 2, 2024 Sharing the good news
An excerpt from John 20:17-2 Jesus said to Mary Magdalene, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to ...
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Easter to Pentecost 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024
posted on Apr 1, 2024 Journeying with Jesus
An excerpt from Matthew 28:9-19 Suddenly Jesus met them and said, 'Greetings!' And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. Then Jesus said to them, 'Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go...
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StG's Book Club on Zoom
posted on Mar 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm on Zoom "This Tender Land" by William Kent Krueger A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace. 19...
Read MoreAn Introduction to the Easter Devotionals
posted on Mar 20, 2024 Walking from Easter to Pentecost It all broke apart during Holy Week. Cruelty, betrayal, suffering, injustice scattered the Jesus Movement. But precisely at the moment when evil seemed to triumph, the goodness of God burst out from the tom...
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Holy Week 2024
Palm Sunday 2024
posted on Mar 8, 2024 Begin the dramatic journey of Jesus' final days: We walk with him in triumph, with bagpipes and waving branches, celebrating his victory, before we are suddenly reminded that the path to true life is through the valley of death.
Service is ...
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Holy Week 2024
Maundy Thursday 2024
posted on Mar 8, 2024 We walk through the story of Jesus' last night with his friends: eating supper together while retelling scripture, washing each other's feet as he commanded, sharing the Eucharist he instituted, and reposing to the darkness of the garden. Ser...
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Holy Week 2024
Good Friday 2024
posted on Mar 8, 2024 We walk with Jesus on this hardest of days, and encounter the greatest mystery of our faith: the Cross of Death becomes the Tree of Life. Services will be at St Lawrence in Libertyville at 12:00pm and 7:00pm at Trinity in Highland Park
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Holy Week 2024
The Great Vigil of Easter 2024
posted on Mar 8, 2024 This is the holiest night of the year, when we walk with Jesus from death into life: Immersed in deep darkness, we light a blazing new fire. Immersed in God's story, we encounter our own lives. Immersed in baptismal waters, we are raise...
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