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Friday, March 29, 2024

Devotional for Good Friday

 

Behold the Saviour of mankind

Nail’d to the shameful tree;

How vast the love that him inclined

To bleed and die for thee!

 

Hark! how he groans, while nature shakes,

And earth’s strong pillars bend:

The temple’s veil in sunder breaks,

The solid marbles rend.

 

‘Tis done! The precious ransom’s paid!

Receive my soul! he cries:

See where he bows his sacred head;

He bows his head, and dies.

 

But soon he’ll break death’s envious chain,  

And in full glory shine:

O Lamb of God, was ever pain,

Was ever love like thine?



Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).

Devotional for Good Friday


Behold the Saviour of mankind

Nail’d to the shameful tree;

How vast the love that him inclined

To bleed and die for thee!

 

Hark! how he groans, while nature shakes,

And earth’s strong pillars bend:

The temple’s veil in sunder breaks,

The solid marbles rend.

 

‘Tis done! The precious ransom’s paid!

Receive my soul! he cries:

See where he bows his sacred head;

He bows his head, and dies.


But soon he’ll break death’s envious chain, 

And in full glory shine:

O Lamb of God, was ever pain,

Was ever love like thine?

 

Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Devotional for Maundy Thursday


My Saviour, my almighty Friend, 

When I begin thy praise, 

Where will the growing numbers end, 

The numbers of thy grace? 


I trust in thy eternal word; 

Thy goodness I adore: 

Send down thy grace, O blessed Lord, 

That I may love thee more. 


My feet shall travel all the length 

Of the celestial road; 

And march, with courage in thy strength, 

To see the Lord my God.


 Awake! awake! my tuneful powers,

With this delightful song;

And entertain the darkest hours,

Nor think the season long.




Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Wednesday with the Wesleys


Let this especially, fortify us against the fear of death: It is now disarmed, and can do us no hurt. It divides us, indeed, from this body awhile; but it is only that we may receive it again more glorious. As God, therefore, said once to Jacob, “Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will go down with thee, and will surely bring thee up again;” so may I say to all who are born of God, “Fear not to go down into the grave; lay down your heads in the dust; for God will certainly bring you up again, and that in a much more glorious manner.” Only “be ye steadfast and unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord;” and then let death prevail over, and pull down, this house of clay; since God hath undertaken to rear it up again, infinitely more beautiful, strong, and useful.

~ John Wesley (sermon On the Resurrection of the Dead)

Devotional for Wednesday in Holy Week

 

I would be thine; O take my heart,

And fill it with thy love;

Thy sacred image, Lord, impart,

And seal it from above.

 

I would be thine; but while I strive

To give myself away,

I feel rebellion still alive,

And wander while I pray.

 

I would be thine; but Lord, I feel

Evil still lurks within:

Do thou thy majesty reveal,

And overcome my sin.

 

I would be thine; I would embrace

The Saviour, and adore;

Inspire with faith, infuse thy grace,

And now my soul restore.




Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Area UMC worship services in Holy Week

The Paschal Triduum 
 Maundy Thursday, ​Good Friday, & Easter
(Rev. Dr. Charles Alkula, 2021)

Church

Maundy Thursday

Good Friday

Arvada UMC

Tenebrae @ 7 pm

Open sanctuary, 9 am - Noon

Berthoud UMC

Passover Sedar @ 6 pm

Good Friday service @     6:30 pm

Broomfield UMC

Living Last Supper portrayal @ 7 pm

Tenebrae worship service @ 7:30 pm in the chapel

Erie UMC

None 

Good Friday service @ 7 pm 

First UMC – Boulder

 TaizĂ© on the Labyrinth @ 7 pm

None 

First UMC – Lafayette

Communion service @ 7 pm 

Good Friday service @ 6 pm

Good Shepherd UMC - Thornton

 None

Good Friday service @ 7 pm

Heart of Longmont UMC

Communion service @ 7 pm

None 

Longs Peak UMC

None 

Good Friday service @ 7 pm

Louisville UMC

None

 Good Friday service @ FUMC - Lafayette

Mountain View UMC

Communion service @ 7 pm

Seven Last Words of Christ with choir @ 7 pm

Niwot UMC

None 

 Good Friday service @ 7 pm



Devotional for Tuesday in Holy Week

  O THOU, whom fain my soul would love,

Whom only I desire to know:

This veil of unbelief remove,

And show me all thy goodness, show;

Tell me thy name, thy nature tell.

 

Hast thou been with me, Lord, so long,

Yet thee, my Lord, have I not known?

I claim thee, with a falt’ring tongue;

I pray thee, O tell me, who thou art,

And speak thy name into my heart.

 

If now thou talkest by the way

With me, the abject sinner, me

mystery of grace display;

Open mine eyes that I may see:

That I may understand thy word.

And now cry out, It is the Lord!




Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).