March 19, 2023
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Year A
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Themes for the Week: shepherd, anointing, God’s chosen one, guidance, provision, children of light, light of the world, sight and blindness
This Sunday’s Readings: 1 Samuel 16:1-13 • Ephesians 5:8-14 • John 9:1-41 • Psalm 23
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Preaching Today
David Harrison: Now I See!
“Lent invites us to clarity of vision — about ourselves, the state of our physical, emotional, and spiritual being — and how we can grow and change to be more consonant with God, in whose image we are made.”
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Articles on This Sunday’s Texts
Sarah Cornwell: Clear-Sighted Preaching
“When you preach ‘Christ will come again,’ preach it like your eyes have seen the glory of the coming of our Lord, and you need for us to see it too. No wishy-washy hedging your bets behind a lens of academic obfuscation. No pretty niceties. You need to be able to see it and so do we.”
Chip Prehn: A Good Shepherd
“Terwilliger made the Christian faith exciting. He showed us again and again that the priestly calling is honorable. He was my own dear father in God. This good and true shepherd’s interest in and care for all of us who became his ‘sons’ was surely a sign to us that the Good Shepherd had plans for us and was counting on us to be his disciples.”
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Tuesday Conversation
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