"Something You Can Fill" (Lent 2012)
During the Advent and Epiphany seasons, we talked about how God has revealed himself to us and how we can listen to God's revelation. But often, our lives are so filled with other things--even good things--that there is no space for God to be present, speak, and fill us with what we most deeply need. During this Lenten series, we will be thinking about ourselves as bowls: bowls that need to be emptied of our things so that we can be filled with the things of God. And we will be looking at some tried-and-true spiritual practices to help us both to be emptied and to be filled again. The title for this series comes from this Caedmon's Call song. We will be using the image of a bowl throughout Lent as a symbol of our lives, a bowl that so easily gets filled with other things, and that needs to be emptied so that we can become "something God can fill."
Maundy Thursday: April 5, 2012: "Filled by the Filler" Luke 22: 7-20
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Palm Sunday: April 1, 2012: "Jesus, the King" Luke 19:28-48
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March 25, 2012: "Secrecy" Matthew 5:13-16, 6:1-6, 16-21. Secrecy is Jesus' prescription for hypocrisy.
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March 18, 2012: "Abstinence" Mark 8:34-38. "The world cannot satisfy me. Only God can."
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March 11, 2012: "Fasting" -Pastor Steve North, Isaiah 58: 1-12, Matthew 6: 16-18
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March 4, 2012: "Silence" 1 Kings 19: 11-13. Silence makes room for wisdom and reveals wisdom. Is your life so full of words and noises that God would have to interrupt if he wanted to speak to you? If Jesus were knocking at your door, could you hear it?
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February 26, 2012: "Solitude" Luke 5: 12-16. Jesus needed solitude. We need solitude. Why is it important to practice solitude and what's the difference between solitude and "me time"? (Correction: Will Smith's co-star in Men in Black was Tommy Lee Jones, not Billy Bob Thornton...my apologies)
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ASH WEDNESDAY: February 22, 2012: "Something You Can Fill" Genesis 2:7, 3:19,
Isaiah 64:6-8, Luke 5:1-11. Ash Wednesday is a time to remember who we are, and to be called into a season of reflecting upon our lives.
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February 19,2012: "Training in Godliness" 1 Timothy 4: 6-16. Enjoying the life of godliness requires training in godliness.
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