Blog, Notes From Wade, Worship
Somewhere along the way, I read that Psalm 4 is good for what ails you. The psalm clearly reflects on God’s ability to “put gladness in our hearts,” but on the third Sunday of Eastertide, it has a special job. Psalm 4 addresses unbelief through...
Blog, Notes From Wade, Worship
When a birthday rolls around, we often joke in our family that “it’s my birthday week.” Of course, birth day quickly morphs into birthday week which lengthens into the week leading up to the birthday and the week following the birthday and then the...
Blog, Notes From Wade, Worship
We call it Holy Week even though it’s not a phrase or description that’s found in scripture. It’s a tag we’ve created to help us understand and make sense out of such pain, such loss, such salvation. The word for “holy” occurs in...
Blog, Notes From Wade, Worship
It must have been an incredibly exciting day! Jesus arrives in Jerusalem the last week before his impending death surrounded by disciples and throngs of strangers. But what kind of an entry was this event we remember as “Palm Sunday?” What image should we have in mind...
Blog, Notes From Wade, Worship
I’m writing this on the Ides of March. Sounds ominous, I know. Shakespeare made this day famous in his play, “Julius Caesar,” in which Caesar is warned to beware of this very day. That warning did, after all, escalate into Caesar’s...
Blog, Notes From Wade, Worship
Let me take a few minutes and update you on events and opportunities here at Central Bearden. Holy Week Our traditional Maundy Thursday service will be at 7 PM on April 1st. We will, safely, still share in the Lord’s Supper at the front of the sanctuary. Rather...
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