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Maximizing Your Holy Week Experience
0 Comments | Submitted: 03/24/2010 10:25 AM
Holy Week is next week at EDCC.
Here's a great guide to make the most of it:
Begin your week with Palm Sunday!
How can you not dig waving palms as we remember the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem? We will begin our day at our excellent Chapel Service at 8:30 AM. You might notice the newly remodeled stone on the outside of our Chapel building. Make sure you say hello to our many regulars who love an early morning worship time. Then slip on over to our Coffee Fellowship which is in Alexander's Stage today. That's the room below the sanctuary. It features a new paint job and houses our newest worship service, the Table. What a cool group of people! You can head off to Sunday School or stay for some rocking music if you want. Finally, join many church members, including kids, in the Great Hall for our Palm Parade into the Sanctuary. We kick off the next service at 10:50 AM, bringing our palms to the front of the sanctuary.
Come back to church at 4:00 PM to hear our next free concert, featuring the Singing Girls of Texas. You won't want to miss this!
On Thursday, join us in the evening in the Great Hall for an excellent Maunday Thursday worship experience, including a meal. We will celebrate the Last Supper as Christ and his disciples did, gathered around tables, sharing in Jesus' final words. This worship kicks off at 6:30 PM.
On Friday, pull away from lunch for an hour or so for our Good Friday service, a service of word and song. We'll hear the last seven words of Christ. This service will be simple, sweet, and powerful, starting at noon in the Sanctuary.
Finally, Saturday morning is your chance to join the Disciple Men from around the church for breakfast from 9 to 11 AM. Meet us in front of the Minyard Building.
Sunday is Easter which features one traditional service at 10:45 AM and the kickoff of the Table service at 9:30 AM. We will have special guests and excitement to share in as we celebrate this day of new life.
We would love to see you!
This video is clever.
0 Comments | Submitted: 03/10/2010 02:18 PM
Straight from Youtube, here is a great video for your viewing pleasure. I dig the song, although I am not a huge OK Go fan. I've been tempted to figure out if the song could work as sort of a vaguely Easter-ish tune. The main line goes - "when the morning comes, let it go, this too shall pass."
But the video is just fun and creative. Check it out. They don't make music videos like this anymore.
Another Prayer for Your Workday
3 Comments | Submitted: 02/23/2010 02:03 PM
More often than not, we humans end up feeling like instruments of others. We get to work. We get on the road. We come home. And somewhere along the way, someone gets our goat. Someone gets at us and pulls the string that makes our blood pressure rise and our day go wrong.
Does it have to be that way?
I believe not. One of the important realities of a Christian life is that we are challenged to embrace the power we have to make a difference in this world. We are not an instrument of someone else's power games and manipulation. We are an instrument of God who desires reconciliation and wholeness for this world (and especially in our individual lives).
Though St. Francis probably did not write this prayer, it is a powerful way to remind ourselves of this true reality. When you feel your blood pressure rising, when you feel yourself losing control of your day, take a moment to pray this silently or out loud. Then return to your day seeking to transform that hopeless situation into something more positive, knowing that God is by our side.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- Rev. Nathan
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