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...
Blog, Notes From Wade, Worship
May I share another poem by Ann Weems from her collection Kneeling in Jerusalem? The title is simply “Lent.” Lent is a time to take the time to let the power of our faith story take hold of us, a time to let the events get up and walk around in us, a time...
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