WORSHIP WITH US on Sunday, March 22, at 10:15 a.m.

WE LIVE STREAM OUR WORSHIP SERVICES AT 10:15 ON SUNDAY MORNING. You can join us online in real time at https://vimeo.com/event/1424751. This streaming address is the same each week.

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During Lent we are hearing stories of encounters—of connections that people make with Jesus and with one another. These stories are long. Telling what happens when Nicodemus, or the woman at the well, or the man born blind, or Mary and Martha and Lazarus encounter Jesus each takes time.

We began this season in the wilderness, hearing of Jesus’ encounter with the devil. And in case you thought things couldn’t get any worse after that, this morning we find ourselves at a tomb, encountering death.

The great twentieth century theologian, Karl Barth, wrote of the word “buried” in the Apostles’ Creed that the “future toward which all human present is running is just this: to be buried, to be accessible only to memory.”

Not that we don’t resist this reality with all that is in our power—and rightly so. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” the poet advises.

 Scripture Lesson: John 11:1-44

Sermon: “A Life-Giving Encounter”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

Anthem:          “Set Me as a Seal”     David Childs

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.