The Mystery of Easter
Rock Ministry. Godly Play: The Mystery of Easter. Brooke leads our lesson for March 14th, The Mystery of Easter. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPiAm44aGQ
Easter
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/29/2020
A devotion from MVLC Director of Music Ministries Susan Bloomfield. — This Sunday marks one of my favorite church holy days, the Day of Pentecost. Pentecost celebrates the gift of the Holy Spirit in many forms – as tongues of fire upon the heads of the disciples (Acts 2:3), as wind (Acts 2:2; Genesis 1:2), …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/27/2020
MVLC Director of Music Ministries Susan Bloomfield’s devotion. — Today’s devotion is inspired by last week’s Jazz Vespers service for Ascension of Our Lord. (If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, please do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXt685OSco) For me, the service was very uplifting and brought a renewed sense of hope. It has been difficult to …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/25/2020
MVLC Member Peggy Thurston’s devotion for Monday, May 25. — The passages I am going to be commenting are from the daily devotions I do each day with a group of ladies online. We all read the same passage, and send one another our thoughts. These are mostly Lutheran women I have come to know from different …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/22/2020
Pastor Glenn Petersen’s devotion for Friday, May 22. — I share with you a story from a Sunday school class. Some 40 years ago, the Sunday school teacher for third graders got a lovely idea for her children. She collected L’eggs pantyhose eggs, which were popular at the time. A few weeks before Easter Sunday, …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/20/2020
MVLC Communication Director Troy Kehm-Goins’ devotion for Wednesday, May 20. — “I dwell in Possibility—” writes the poet Emily Dickinson. She is writing about poetry itself, but could easily be talking about a house, a home. Two years earlier, she wrote in another poem, influenced by Jesus talking about his promise of the many dwelling …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/18/2020
MVLC Members Hannah Johnsrud’s and Gretchen Johnsrud’s devotion for Monday, May 18. — Today, we invite you into a modified practice of Lectio Divina, “divine reading.” Together, we will READ the scriptures, REFLECT on the text and its messages today, and PRAY for God’s presence in our lives. We invite you to contribute your own …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/15/2020
MVLC Member Jason Cornell’s devotion for Friday, May 15. — No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. —1 JOHN 4:12 While I find it hard to express in words what the love of another means to me, I’ve …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/13/2020
MVLC Director of Music Ministries Susan Bloomfield’s devotion for Wednesday, May 13. — I, like many of you I’m sure, have been struggling with feeling disconnected during this time. These feelings of disconnectedness can arise from a variety of sources such as fear, grief, or separation from friends and family. Disconnection can manifest in many …
Texts from the Empty Tomb • 05/11/2020
MVLC Member Sam Jones’ devotion, “We Are an Easter People,” for Monday, May 11. — We are an EASTER PEOPLE, who have walked in JESUS (Col. 2:6). We are an EASTER PEOPLE who can testify of JESUS CHRIST and HIS Righteousness. WE are an EASTER PEOPLE, who are known by the works that result from …