MORNING PRAYER By The Concord Pastor, http://concordpastor.blogspot.com/ Dear God, Every dawn begins a holy day, a new beginning, a new chapter in the story of your love for us. Every year we enter Holy Week, a solemn, joyful time to remember and celebrate the love you poured out for us in the suffering, dying and rising…
On Wednesday, February 10th, the church enters the season of Lent, a time for increasing our attention to practices of Christian faith as a way of nurturing and strengthening our faith. Chronologically, Lent takes the faithful on the journey from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. I think of it as a kind of Spring Training…
“Lord God, our maker, as you feed the birds of the air and clothe the flowers of the field, so you nurture and build us up by your steadfast love. You have promised that you will provide. So this day of gratitude, we come before you with songs of thanksgiving. When our hearts are filled…