We’ve Got This! Signs of Life: Why Church Matters – Community Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman I’ll say one thing for this Great Weirdness we’ve been going through: it has sparked some pretty funny jokes and a lot of creativity. My favorite jokes so far: • A picture of a big table […]
This Is Our Destiny Signs of Life: Why Church Matters – Shelter Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman I know you’ve heard me say plenty of times that we select the readings a month or more before we read them in church. As most of you know, we’re doing a sermon series this […]
Faith Means Action Signs of Life: Why Church Matters – Food Third Sunday in Lent, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman I think the English language is amazing! In the past week, we’ve developed new vocabulary words and phrases that so aptly describe the remarkable reality of a pandemic, something 99% of us weren’t thinking about just […]
Walking on the Waters of Chaos Signs of Life: Why Church Matters – Water Second Sunday in Lent, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman The collect uses the image of the waters of chaos – isn’t that apt for us right now? COVID-19, tornadoes at midnight, a political arena that resembles a bar fight, skittish stock markets, […]
Signs of Life: Why Church Matters – Light First Sunday in Lent, Year A Deacon Cindy Roehl Can you believe it’s already Lent? I love the season of Lent. Since we set aside time each year to spiritually prepare for Christmas Day, it only makes sense to set aside time to spiritually prepare for the […]
Signs of Life – Why Church Matters For the 2020 season of Lent, Church of the Good Shepherd will participate in the Signs of Life: Why Church Matters series. This series uses the familiar signs and symbols of our shared Christian worship – Light, Water, Food, Shelter, and Community – combined with the monastic practices […]
Using Your Bean Signs of Life: Why Church Matters Ash Wednesday, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman What should we make of the biggest news story of 2020 so far, the coronavirus? Or, as it is officially called now, COVID-19. It’s this: humans can lose perspective even faster than they can jump to conclusions. 8,000 children die […]
