Lent 2010

Pray the Hours

Starting Ash Wednesday (February 17, 2010), a podcast posting of the daily office will be released each evening on the St. Paul's 2010 Lenten Pray the Hours website to use during the 2010 Lenten season. This is a project of the young adults of St. Pauls Episcopal Church of Murfreesboro.

Lenten Meditations 2010

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Tuesday, February 23

Psalm 45; Gen. 37:12-24; 1 Cor. 1:20-31; Mark 1:14-28

God is constant in His efforts to seek our hearts. He calls in so many ways.

People, we, you and I and all the others. Everyone of them everywhere were, are and will be created by God. The power and allure and prestige of persons, places and things change without ceasing. It is continuous. Change is so constant that change is the norm and resistance to change is the exception.

God has created and chosen all of us and sent Jesus to us to show us the way to God. Joseph’s brothers were intent upon killing him but God redeemed Joseph by selling Joseph into slavery.

Psalm 45 intimately portrays us, the church, as the bride of the King. God has chosen, created and installed Jesus as our King. God has and does create all people. God does not want us to follow or serve any person, place or thing save Christ Jesus. Seek, find and follow Jesus Christ the very King we were created to follow.

Are we listening? Not to the words from this page or any other source save the Holy Spirit and our awareness. We are, like the first disciples (Simon-James-John), asked more than once. His patience is beyond all measure like most parents. Mark 1 explains that we can delay and He will continue to ask. But, unlike our parents He has forever and we do not. Do not delay. Find the most satisfaction possible and answer His requests as they come.

Great comfort as to our real worth is provided in Corinthians 1. This God (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) that created all things known and unknown, can move all power wherever He chooses any time He chooses, raise the dead, recall demons, etc.; do any and all things. He created US and He wants US to do His work right where we are in most cases. Some are called to some “other” task or service. But God calls most of us right where we are for the purpose of bringing all others to Christ. The time is now and the place is where you are!

So EACH of US are created by the greatest of all conceivable power, God Himself. We are qualified by Him to do the work He calls us to do. Today, tomorrow and every day. Let us listen and let us act.

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Lent at St. Paul's

Lent at St. Pau'sObserve Lent at St. Paul's with Evening Prayer on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings; Stations of the Cross on Fridays; and a special Lenten series on the names of Jesus and soup supper on Wednesdays. Services will be held on Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter in addition to regular Sunday services.

Lenten Meditations Archive

Lenten Soup Suppers and Study Series

What: Lenten Soup Suppers and Study Series

Study: The Names of Jesus

When: Wednesday evenings beginning February 24 and continuing through March 24 (see schedule below for details)

Time: 5:45 p.m. food line opens. Brief liturgy and speaker following meal

Where: St. Paul's Parish Hall

Childcare provided

Weekly Schedule

Feb. 24: Rabbi Rami Shapiro

March 3: The Rev. Bob Abstein

March 10: Dr. Awadh Binhazim, Muslim Chaplain, Vanderbilt University

March 17: TBA

March 24: Dr. Paul Holloway, Professor at The School of Theology at Sewanee