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Saturday, March 8, 2025
Liturgy: Lent 1 Lessons and Carols, John 3-4 (March 9, 2025)
Additional Hymns:
Hymn GTG #482, “Baptized in Water”
Hymn GTG #456, “Listen, God Is Calling”
Hymn GTG #166, “Lord, Who throughout These Forty Days” [vv. 1, 3, & 4]
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Sunday, March 2, 2025
Sermon: “Shedding Some Light on John’s Gospel”, John 1:1-18 (March 2, 2025)
Today is Transfiguration Sunday. Churches usually spend this last Sunday before Lent reading and reflecting on the story of Jesus’ dazzling transformation on a mountaintop. There’s a good liturgical reason for this timing: the Transfiguration serves as a preview of Christ’s ultimate glory and exultation in the Resurrection. It gives us the theological context for Jesus’ earthly life as we prepare to enter Lent.
But – well – we’ve run into a problem this time around. As has become tradition for us here at Boone, we’ll be spending the six weeks of Lent reading straight through one of the gospels from beginning to end. But this year’s gospel is John, and John doesn’t HAVE a transfiguration account to ground us during this time of liturgical transition. It doesn’t offer a “mountaintop experience” to contextualize all the rest of the stories that we’re about to hear. It doesn’t fit into the mold of the other three gospels.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Liturgy: John's Prologue, John 1:1-18 (March 2, 2025)
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Hymns
Hymn GTG #673, “Jesus, Light of Joy”
Hymn GTG #377, “I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light”
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Sermon: "Unworthy", Luke 7:1-17 (February 9, 2025)
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Liturgy: Healing the Centurion's Servant, Luke 7:1-17 (February 9, 2025)
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Hymns
Hymn GTG #386, “Come, Worship God”
Hymn GTG #782, “Hear My Prayer, O God”
Hymn GTG #744, “Arise, Your Light is Come”
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Sermon: “Foe or Friend”, Luke 6:1-11 (February 2, 2025)
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Saturday, February 1, 2025
Liturgy: Healing on the Sabbath, Luke 6:1-11 (February 2, 2025)
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Hymn GTG #393, “O Day of Rest and Gladness”
Hymn GTG #61, “Your Law, O Lord, Is Perfect”
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Sermon: “Go Fish”, Luke 5:1-11 (January 26, 2025)
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Liturgy: Fish for People, Luke 5:1-11 (January 26, 2025)
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Hymn GTG #170, “You Walk along Our Shoreline”
Hymn GTG #726, “Will You Come and Follow Me”
Hymn GTG #751, “From the Nets of our Labors”
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Sermon: "No Offense", Luke 4:14-30 (January 19, 2025)
“People are so easily offended these days. You can’t say ANYTHING anymore!” Such is the attitude that seems to have taken hold in certain corners of the popular modern imagination. We’re living in the era of “cancel culture,” and to hear some people tell it, it’s the worst thing that could possibly happen to society. If only people would just stop being so sensitive, we’d be able to focus on things that really matter, instead of spending all our time tiptoeing around the “snowflakes.”
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Liturgy: Sermon at Nazareth, Luke 4:14-30 (January 19, 2025)
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Hymn GTG #772, “Live into Hope”
Hymn GTG #345, “In an Age of Twisted Values”
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Sermon: “Into the Unknown", Luke 2:41-52 (January 5, 2025)
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Liturgy: Jesus in the Temple, Luke 2:41-52 (January 5, 2025)
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Hymn GTG #143, “Angels, from the Realms of Glory”
Hymn GTG #135, “There's a Star in the East”
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