The Way of New Life

It is Good Friday, or Holy Friday, or God’s Friday. This is the day when we remember that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on a cross for making powerful people nervous. But God has a design for our humanness, and God makes something good out of that cross. At the cross we will learn the way of nonviolence. There, we will see Jesus choose not to fight. There, in the place we think is so final, we’ll learn about new life.

Scripture: John 18:1-19:42

The Way It Is

Lent is a season in the church year that leads up to Holy Week and Easter. In Lent, we follow Jesus’ journey in his life and ministry that led to his execution, and see how our death-dealing ways are defeated by a God who loves us. 

This Lent we will explore some of what is “the way” of Christ, and how we are invited alongside, which makes space for us to reflect on our own faith journey and where God is leading us and what God is calling us to do and be.

We are framing the season around a poem by William Stafford called, “The Way it Is” 

There’s a thread that you follow

It goes among things that change…

This poem makes it clear-each journey is personal, so your “Way” is different than others’ way, and the Way of Christ is about the journey, not a set of instructions.