Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of April 4, 2021 Written by Rev. Tim Best Lord Jesus, you who defeated the power of death and overcame the cold darkness of the tomb, free us from our bondage to the powers of death. Just as your disciples discovered the clothes which bound you, folded […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, April 4, Evening By Johnie Elliott, March 18, 1979 Doubt to Dedication Read John 20:24-28 The world sometimes has a way of remembering the bad that we do and forgetting the good. Thomas is an example, as a usual thing, when people think of the doubting Thomas. […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, April 4, Morning By Rev. Dr. Tooms H. Kay, Jr., March 26, 1978 From Death to Life Read John 19:41-42 (J.B. Phillips) “In the place where he was crucified, there was a garden containing a new tomb in which nobody had yet been laid. Because it was […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Saturday, April 3, Evening By Dr. Don Rhodes, February 29, 1980 Our Church Read James 2:26 (Living Bible) “Just as the body is dead when there is no spirit in it, so faith is dead if it is not the kind that results in good deeds.” Article X […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Saturday, April 3, Morning By Helen Smithson, April 14, 1979 Between Calvary and the Resurrection Read Matthew 27:57-60 “And when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man came to Pilate and asked […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Friday, April 1, Evening By Esther W. Bare, March 12, 1976 When We Don’t Understand Read Hebrews 4:14-15; 1 Corinthians 13:8-9 We Americans are a people who want to know. Indeed, the genius of Western man, some say, has been that he was determined to push the limits […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Friday, April 1, Morning By Mrs. Laura White, March 17, 1978 O Sacred Head, Now Wounded “O Sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, thine only crown; How pale thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn! How does […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, April 1, Evening By Dorothy & Asa Bishop, February 21, 1980 Lent is a Time for Preparing for Living Read Mark 14:32-42 “And they went to a place which was called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here, while I pray…Watch and pray that you […]
Daily Lent Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, April 1, Morning By Mrs. Elizabeth Reagon, March 28, 2018 Do You Wait for an Answer? Read John 18:38, 17:17 (KJV), Matthew 24:35, 7:7 (KJV) Pontius Pilate’s life may have been dramatically changed had he waited for an answer. The crucifixion scriptures tell us, “Pilot saith unto […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family March 31, 2021 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Under soggy skies we make our way homeward, thankful that a dry dwelling is waiting to welcome us in the evening hours. Shapeless clouds have lingered low throughout the day, providing none of the inspiration of the […]
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