tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28513878338998571132024-03-28T16:20:40.483-06:00Bolder St. Paul'sLoving God - Creating Hope - Changing LivesSt. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.comBlogger3592125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-8461683415786148342024-03-28T00:30:00.007-06:002024-03-28T07:18:11.437-06:00Devotional for Maundy Thursday<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5gLtOivjUIQ8emd42CF6P6a-l-aDvmM-4R8VZgRPLW0-7P8DLJ7S4j39qy_Sj9g6e6NjkUwJpRgEBII6Sq1WnkKN8A4TJ7cvIPCfYKEB1VstX4RnMEP1TA2Vn7yx5CwiGd69pyVgKM-Xi5C9PFNYN6xgXxingQhlnuiH6NfuoyrhPr0W61FaRea2C350z/s400/51058842878_82dd2e0803_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5gLtOivjUIQ8emd42CF6P6a-l-aDvmM-4R8VZgRPLW0-7P8DLJ7S4j39qy_Sj9g6e6NjkUwJpRgEBII6Sq1WnkKN8A4TJ7cvIPCfYKEB1VstX4RnMEP1TA2Vn7yx5CwiGd69pyVgKM-Xi5C9PFNYN6xgXxingQhlnuiH6NfuoyrhPr0W61FaRea2C350z/w300-h400/51058842878_82dd2e0803_o.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></span></div><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">My Saviour, my almighty Friend, </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When I begin thy praise, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Where will the growing numbers end, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The numbers of thy grace? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I trust in thy eternal word; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thy goodness I adore: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Send down thy grace, O blessed Lord, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That I may love thee more. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My feet shall travel all the length <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of the celestial road; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And march, with courage in thy strength, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To see the Lord my God.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Awake! awake! my tuneful powers,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With this delightful song;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And entertain the darkest hours,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nor think the season long.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-63150504575340002152024-03-27T01:30:00.001-06:002024-03-27T01:30:00.245-06:00Wednesday with the Wesleys<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj30gFksc6K-H78fyBGHOyE_hQ01UEi2-xBMSSlxBpf-nwJpK06YFBHhYwZLdSx5PS3iA-mt0RfR6RqgsOEG7Ut62-L_W_oaetR2gS2ub1BQh_YTYfApswJdz52gs9K0_yu_ymFiMeHm824BtVck1FUHNhKm7zSbCtjEue2h6aOKJcmyq343JV-ztFrhKv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="597" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj30gFksc6K-H78fyBGHOyE_hQ01UEi2-xBMSSlxBpf-nwJpK06YFBHhYwZLdSx5PS3iA-mt0RfR6RqgsOEG7Ut62-L_W_oaetR2gS2ub1BQh_YTYfApswJdz52gs9K0_yu_ymFiMeHm824BtVck1FUHNhKm7zSbCtjEue2h6aOKJcmyq343JV-ztFrhKv=w267-h400" width="267" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />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 <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">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. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">~ John Wesley (sermon On the Resurrection of the Dead)</span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-32936959227702477532024-03-27T00:30:00.001-06:002024-03-27T00:30:00.165-06:00Devotional for Wednesday in Holy Week<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-6EUefeLl-3EHgOPrP4B0_CDDwyTowy7l9wdwZtnVWJA2KUmYGKSBR33D7yh25sRZF15_EN8dg3xC4LQeZahmbJg7ojN6O44oVL46sOspHaP0vkk1UrjTPwdyrh7ohPeIcw6lquAGYZQyvFs1qPa1MKrvh2hQPppciYn_KlLhVvnuuz8lUlcD_hdNKu-/s4032/IMG_3878.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-6EUefeLl-3EHgOPrP4B0_CDDwyTowy7l9wdwZtnVWJA2KUmYGKSBR33D7yh25sRZF15_EN8dg3xC4LQeZahmbJg7ojN6O44oVL46sOspHaP0vkk1UrjTPwdyrh7ohPeIcw6lquAGYZQyvFs1qPa1MKrvh2hQPppciYn_KlLhVvnuuz8lUlcD_hdNKu-/w300-h400/IMG_3878.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I would be thine; O take my heart,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And fill it with thy love;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thy sacred image, Lord, impart,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And seal it from above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I would be thine; but while I strive<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To give myself away,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I feel rebellion still alive,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And wander while I pray.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I would be thine; but Lord, I feel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Evil still lurks within:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do thou thy majesty reveal,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And overcome my sin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I would be thine; I would embrace <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Saviour, and adore;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Inspire with faith, infuse thy grace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And now my soul restore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-11718032449920825972024-03-26T01:30:00.115-06:002024-03-27T09:49:59.203-06:00Area UMC worship services in Holy Week <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEj7rgbH7HbnKZKmUKXaX3UnKukmyOgpkA9Ds4JGZqb_UI_yhoyCMCFs0KV_Oo7zsuPoiZBL4qS5O9pRBRdMzYkdHCuADRTSdMWXWD75mZqJ70KHys0UUS7VR1zY942PAhjT2Pz9TpfZ8PYoWVYZHO_AYthpqmAQBr0PVJMGt9zYSEhw4j3mciQ35qKze/s800/paschal-triduum_orig.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEj7rgbH7HbnKZKmUKXaX3UnKukmyOgpkA9Ds4JGZqb_UI_yhoyCMCFs0KV_Oo7zsuPoiZBL4qS5O9pRBRdMzYkdHCuADRTSdMWXWD75mZqJ70KHys0UUS7VR1zY942PAhjT2Pz9TpfZ8PYoWVYZHO_AYthpqmAQBr0PVJMGt9zYSEhw4j3mciQ35qKze/w300-h400/paschal-triduum_orig.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #626262;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Paschal Triduum </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #626262;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;"> <em style="position: relative;">Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, & Easter<br /></em></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Rev. Dr. Charles Alkula, 2021)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-left: 6.75pt; margin-right: 6.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-table-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-table-anchor-vertical: page; mso-table-left: left; mso-table-lspace: 9.0pt; mso-table-rspace: 9.0pt; mso-table-top: 177.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Church</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Maundy Thursday</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;">Good Friday</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Arvada UMC</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Tenebrae </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">@ 7 pm</span></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Open sanctuary,<span> </span></span><span>9 am - Noon</span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Berthoud UMC</b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Passover Sedar @ 6 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Good Friday service @ <span> </span></span><span>6:30 pm</span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Broomfield UMC</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Living Last Supper portrayal @ 7 pm</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #222222;"><span>Tenebrae worship service </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;">@ 7:30 pm in the chapel</span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Erie UMC</b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">None </span></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Good Friday <span style="text-align: center;">service</span> @ 7 pm</span> </span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">First UMC – Boulder</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p><span> </span></o:p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taizé</span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on the Labyrinth @</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> 7 pm</span></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">None </span></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>First UMC – Lafayette</b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Communion <span style="text-align: center;">service</span> @ 7 pm</span> </span></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Good Friday service @ 6 pm</span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Good Shepherd UMC - Thornton</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> None</span></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Good Friday service @ 7 pm</span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Heart of Longmont UMC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Communion service @ 7 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">None </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Longs Peak UMC</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">None </span></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Good Friday service @ 7 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Louisville UMC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">None</span></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Good Friday service @ FUMC - Lafayette</span></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Mountain View UMC</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Communion service @ 7 pm</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Seven Last Words of Christ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with choir @ 7 pm</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Niwot UMC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">None </span></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p><span> </span></o:p><span style="text-align: left;">Good Friday <span style="text-align: center;">service</span> @ 7 pm</span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"><td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.8pt;" valign="top" width="208"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 177.5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><br /></p></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"></td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 155.85pt;" valign="top" width="208"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-38112338810124366542024-03-26T00:30:00.002-06:002024-03-26T00:30:00.146-06:00Devotional for Tuesday in Holy Week<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBpZSb6DZJF4v6iV-la4emoizcT72Wle2tvQSIpJ_MA6dduTqBMqWHmA03EYGHv1PXDS1QCmJJNP7FJh4QKrZXNHkvbk2SDEZuuXD4vbNpr-UBqMpYEKCL5ogLOHxYjgfs7PitmEP9ebm36XREKo8CaAel5z169ktkyI6BXQ20WL4gE6KR1MAIXyE4Tw1/s4032/IMG_3882.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBpZSb6DZJF4v6iV-la4emoizcT72Wle2tvQSIpJ_MA6dduTqBMqWHmA03EYGHv1PXDS1QCmJJNP7FJh4QKrZXNHkvbk2SDEZuuXD4vbNpr-UBqMpYEKCL5ogLOHxYjgfs7PitmEP9ebm36XREKo8CaAel5z169ktkyI6BXQ20WL4gE6KR1MAIXyE4Tw1/w300-h400/IMG_3882.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span lang="en-US">O THOU, whom fain my soul would love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Whom only I desire to know:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This veil of unbelief remove,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And show me all thy goodness, show;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tell me thy name, thy nature tell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hast thou been with me, Lord, so long,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yet thee, my Lord, have I not known?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I claim thee, with a falt’ring tongue;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I pray thee, O tell me, who thou art,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And speak thy name into my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If now thou talkest by the way<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With me, the abject sinner, me<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">mystery of grace display;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Open mine eyes that I may see:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That I may understand thy word.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And now cry out, It is the Lord!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-77533660371514531012024-03-25T02:30:00.003-06:002024-03-25T02:30:00.128-06:00This week @ St. Paul's UMC<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUL-oenok4MgkWcDOVCwk-4VmZhK4C-lXXNRtNTeg3zzEapgXnLy3fneFsGxmETk0ugvXvfQAQ4ylWxdGAzQw-SH_VnspuLcQLzO3H6aiEOcg_K8sAhTl0UrGhRzaxyaiNXTaWwi4Ad3VuAJUFXopSbwqkvjeKDdAstx2nOCT_DFiLOCPYntMiSLiWcmoz/s474/OIP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUL-oenok4MgkWcDOVCwk-4VmZhK4C-lXXNRtNTeg3zzEapgXnLy3fneFsGxmETk0ugvXvfQAQ4ylWxdGAzQw-SH_VnspuLcQLzO3H6aiEOcg_K8sAhTl0UrGhRzaxyaiNXTaWwi4Ad3VuAJUFXopSbwqkvjeKDdAstx2nOCT_DFiLOCPYntMiSLiWcmoz/w400-h225/OIP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mon</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>d</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">ay in Holy Week </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tuesday in Holy Week </span></b></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wednesday in Holy Week: </span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">10:00 AM, </span><span style="text-align: left;"><u><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/454017451" style="color: #cc0033; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Zoom Fellowship</a></u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">7:30 PM, Choir practice</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Maundy Thursday</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;">Good Friday</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Holy </b><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Saturday: </span><i style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">6:00 AM, BBKC Prayer Time</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">9:00 AM,<i> </i>Yoga class </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Easter Sunday</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">8:45 AM, Adult class</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">10:15 AM, Worship </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11:15 AM, Fellowship </span></span></div></div>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-25288352138910547662024-03-25T01:30:00.002-06:002024-03-25T01:30:00.127-06:00Scripture lessons for Easter Sunday<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKRQY6djZ70Hp0Ou6-KPI1oIXsb36et8aOTgQNBRlPFdV4BlwVcU80p6DSj1eCt49Fj96xFe9T4V4FwQ2i83LZXwzzD9v3tUeCmLZs7bE77AdBzZcSwgMJFMyOW2fyy7lS7_e_5f57sB7i89QuO0Q0JmpXaVep76cKHiRkmIsn8AMyMV_H930dM8cEVpW/s844/169433889-10159336859447889-9063420301837989028-n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="844" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKRQY6djZ70Hp0Ou6-KPI1oIXsb36et8aOTgQNBRlPFdV4BlwVcU80p6DSj1eCt49Fj96xFe9T4V4FwQ2i83LZXwzzD9v3tUeCmLZs7bE77AdBzZcSwgMJFMyOW2fyy7lS7_e_5f57sB7i89QuO0Q0JmpXaVep76cKHiRkmIsn8AMyMV_H930dM8cEVpW/w400-h300/169433889-10159336859447889-9063420301837989028-n.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />The festive worship that is Easter comes to us next week with a combined service with our friends from the Beaitiful Korean Church.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Our scripture lessons come from <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015%3A1-11&version=CEB;NRSVUE" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 15:1-11</a> and <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015%3A1-11&version=CEB;NRSVUE" target="_blank">John 20:1-18</a>.</span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-8296969317663881112024-03-25T00:30:00.004-06:002024-03-25T00:30:00.136-06:00Devotional for Monday in Holy Week<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaPDhXeXyGBxSPUpOMUEIbQ_2wl57aljq_aj2KiTtdoAdl-J8DPsfzJRp6h73GPAwxnkg18uyG4ytsbvzQIbKvAdw_711VJxmWInLKSt31wCCatA1Oe8W5vS8h5kxU5biLyyAyX5HMWlTENKI8sbSqjbYgiIsoiulu0ylwnj568fYGBDHmK3DtGXrcCWEE/s4032/IMG_3910.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaPDhXeXyGBxSPUpOMUEIbQ_2wl57aljq_aj2KiTtdoAdl-J8DPsfzJRp6h73GPAwxnkg18uyG4ytsbvzQIbKvAdw_711VJxmWInLKSt31wCCatA1Oe8W5vS8h5kxU5biLyyAyX5HMWlTENKI8sbSqjbYgiIsoiulu0ylwnj568fYGBDHmK3DtGXrcCWEE/w300-h400/IMG_3910.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Grant me with thy courts a place,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Among thy saints a seat,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Forever to behold thy face,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And worship at thy feet:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In thy pavilion to abide,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When storms of trouble blow,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And in thy tabernacle hide,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Secure from every foe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Seek ye my face; without delay,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When thus I fear thee speak,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My heart would leap for joy, and say,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thy face, Lord, will I seek.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then leave me not when griefs assail,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And earthly comforts flee;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When father, mother, kindred fail,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My God, remember me.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-42828628581243162952024-03-24T11:09:00.001-06:002024-03-24T15:49:53.825-06:00March 24 @ St. Paul's UMC: Prayers<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #8e7cc3;"></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjLFkAtwI3y7xDEkcNft_a4CcF0HM4c7i8psZ0rVPAlD_xlOXssLHyDAXpVDgJM0hkmkt9OqF_JnLnh7TxBsLYK1EckqeGTcgHd3xlhBDnFfBmwTfvSgkEwDbyjBJMcVUk40Uu5IHTBT9TOAxxJRJaJILpHTBmFpovKHnaGjJb8agYn9pQv7cwQrxieKwY/s320/candle.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjLFkAtwI3y7xDEkcNft_a4CcF0HM4c7i8psZ0rVPAlD_xlOXssLHyDAXpVDgJM0hkmkt9OqF_JnLnh7TxBsLYK1EckqeGTcgHd3xlhBDnFfBmwTfvSgkEwDbyjBJMcVUk40Uu5IHTBT9TOAxxJRJaJILpHTBmFpovKHnaGjJb8agYn9pQv7cwQrxieKwY/w315-h400/candle.gif" width="315" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />Joys:</b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We give thanks this morning for Amy Abshire for providing today's message in Pastor Charles' absence.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ Pastor Charles is thankful for the many expressions of prayer and support during his hospital stay and recovery.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We celebrate this week's birthdays: Alexandra Muckle</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>+ We give thanks for those participating in today's service: Amy Abshire </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">(message),</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span>Belinda Alkula (videographer), Steve Bainbridge (greeter), Tim Cook (class), Rebecca Glancy (liturgist), Etta Levitt (Zoom usher), Kathy Lloyd (Zoom host), </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hyeji Miranda (piano), </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">Suzanne Polacek (bells), Ron Revier (choir), & Marcy Roberts (fellowship).</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Concerns:</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We lift up Gary Smith as he enters hospice care and for Bren who is making this journey with him.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">+ Healing prayers are asked for </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">Claudia Mills following a fall last week.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">+ </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">Belinda Alkula lifts up Pastor Charles' recovery following a hospital stay last week.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ Joey Vander Vorste lifts up Jim in prayer following surgery.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We continue to pray for the innocents suffering in Gaza.</span></span></div>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-5254483181388425592024-03-24T02:30:00.021-06:002024-03-24T07:24:54.354-06:00March 24 @ St. Paul's UMC: Announcements<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFUnyLPKdcAYz6QpM75rMZv_eVbe-4WmAWTmPiLWZHIqlvWVg0sNrKSsmJItbdsp6w_Fo6wi832E_JksYQSXRJ2pWNQO-i8mCGzkv3-E-z39vcquJuF9BqWUn5q6qvUTKL0DYSAh1LWXj2pK73jCpS5MTZy2OChiMXeB_sgXaQgwhI3Z-NfWEXBKHtCZyb/s314/OIP%20(5).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="314" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFUnyLPKdcAYz6QpM75rMZv_eVbe-4WmAWTmPiLWZHIqlvWVg0sNrKSsmJItbdsp6w_Fo6wi832E_JksYQSXRJ2pWNQO-i8mCGzkv3-E-z39vcquJuF9BqWUn5q6qvUTKL0DYSAh1LWXj2pK73jCpS5MTZy2OChiMXeB_sgXaQgwhI3Z-NfWEXBKHtCZyb/w400-h229/OIP%20(5).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><p><b style="font-weight: bold;">+Holy Week Observances</b><b> </b>- This Tuesday, a blog post here will list Holy Week worship opportunities at area United Methodist Churches. Please make this week a highlight of your Easter preparations<b>.</b></p></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">+D<span style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">uring this season of preparation, please pray for our delegates to <b>The UMC</b> <b>General Conference </b>and/or lift up your thoughts of hope and prosperity for our </span><span style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">connection. </span></span><span style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Visit <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2851387833899857113/525448318138842559#" target="_blank">this link</a> and light a candle, sharing your personal sentiments. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">+Our <b>Easter worship </b>will be a joint service with the Beautiful Korean Church. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">+</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bishop Karen Oliveto</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> will be our preacher on April 7. Our bishop will be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">retiring this summer and this will be the last opportunity for many of us to hear this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">extraordinary preacher and our episcopal leader since 2016.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-35756819088566918862024-03-24T01:30:00.074-06:002024-03-24T11:06:45.630-06:00March 24 @ St. Paul"s UMC: Worship<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgul2E4nRp4jObfadwzsekLUatwh_FiMXcQqGYd9Y47KqK9zGFCRPqETsTjc-LkYsrJgNuYyjZmCNmvPU1asDomxDTtviOmj4r-4XhIgasgYlmQvUcKOm1WsTZmmIO49wKNJs9o6HmyHenSJtMI4E9jhpYn7j7fzFqwIeU3tPoiavYF3o-cf1ZvMBK4JwMk/s960/434054996_25195377546775342_3945302630904422964_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Palm/Passion Sunday</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Today’s Meditation Verse: </b><i>“Therefore, God highly honored Him and gave Him a name above all names...” </i>—Philippians 2:9a</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Welcome...</b>Amy Abshire</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Prelude...</b>Hyeji Miranda / <i>“All Hail The Power of Jesus’ </i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Name” </i>by Oliver Holden</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>*Call to Worship...</b>Rebecca Glancy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Leader: We come to prepare for the holiest of weeks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">People: <b>We will journey through praise, with joy on </b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">our lips; we will travel through betrayal and death, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">cradling hope deep in our hearts.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Leader: Jesus leads us through this week, and we will </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">follow, for He is the life we long for, He is the Word who </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">sustains us.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">People: <b>We wave palm branches in anticipation, we </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>lay our love before Him, to cushion His walk.</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Leader: Setting aside all power, glory, and might, he comes: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">modeling humility and obedience for all of us.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">People: <b>Hosanna! Hosanna! Blessed is the One who </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>brings us the kingdom of God.</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—by Rev. Thom Shuman, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">posted on Lectionary Liturgies blog</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>*Hymn...</b><i>“Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” </i>(UMH #278)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Prayer of Confession </b>(Book of Worship #483)...Rebecca </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Glancy</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">God of grace and glory, we thank You that You judge </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">us not by the perfection of our actions, but by our </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">readiness to live boldly by faith. Help us, as </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">individuals and as a congregation, to trust You and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">follow where You lead, that in Christ Your name may </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">be glorified in all the earth. Amen.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Community prayer concerns and celebrations</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Pastoral Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer...</b>Amy Abshire</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>First Gospel Lesson: </b>Mark 15:1-15...Rebecca Glancy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Choral Anthem...</b><i>“Hosanna To The King”</i> by Anna Laura Page</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Second Gospel Lesson:</b> Matthew 27:15-26...Amy Abshire</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">People: <b>Thanks be to God.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Sermon...</b>Amy Abshire / <i>“Facing the Cross: Pontius Pilate and </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Barabbas”</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>*Hymn...</b><i>“Were You There”</i> (UMH #288)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>*Words for the Journey...</b>Amy Abshire</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Postlude...</b>Hyeji Miranda /<i> “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna!”</i> arranged </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">C.E. Walz</span></span></div></div></div><p></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-29505698758725510112024-03-24T00:30:00.003-06:002024-03-24T00:30:00.130-06:00Devotional for Palm/Passion Sunday<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hMvgnBI8RNpjgtMS4K-AZKwL5N073N13WeAnHe7bahh65CSjNVzFwUVYOktH_wvUIpCllgmufOKwBJapl-oCNNUhxBa31KPnQFKHKUK1DsEnKd6R65EWHhfFEpOHBeCeaQWLVt_LcYz1SlJEPYWN4DEffErzPlxPZAtVufDqvXEh5wpDWOLU2cfLJhKB/s3776/IMG_3917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3776" data-original-width="3022" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hMvgnBI8RNpjgtMS4K-AZKwL5N073N13WeAnHe7bahh65CSjNVzFwUVYOktH_wvUIpCllgmufOKwBJapl-oCNNUhxBa31KPnQFKHKUK1DsEnKd6R65EWHhfFEpOHBeCeaQWLVt_LcYz1SlJEPYWN4DEffErzPlxPZAtVufDqvXEh5wpDWOLU2cfLJhKB/w320-h400/IMG_3917.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I’m not ashamed to own my Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Or to defend his cause;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Maintain the honour of his word,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The glory of his cross.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jesus, my God! I know his name;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">His name is all my trust;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nor will he put my soul to shame,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nor let my hope be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Firm as his throne his promise stands,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And he can well secure<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What I’ve committed to his hands,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Till the decisive hour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then will he own my worthless name<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Before his Father’s face,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And in the New Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Appoint my soul a place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></div></span><p></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-64162059312592700192024-03-23T01:30:00.001-06:002024-03-23T10:50:12.641-06:00We celebrate Palm/Passion Sunday<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"></span></strong></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRquLre56vuAHGcgEukj5VNgxJpWq_6OUTYlAP3M73rfN-wOEkxqOPu3j9KI-uX1PIwsUOIUhTL6ukxZpDDF9xT7RCdzEKSG3mLuF8wyeCO4xZMvEYzB_cODMb3qEgOc9lXiyE2LsBRZgZhRQGpNCnFgdp_FogtOPxWc_Y9xkIL8lre7TXDJYDvrjLIcT/s180/Worship%204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRquLre56vuAHGcgEukj5VNgxJpWq_6OUTYlAP3M73rfN-wOEkxqOPu3j9KI-uX1PIwsUOIUhTL6ukxZpDDF9xT7RCdzEKSG3mLuF8wyeCO4xZMvEYzB_cODMb3qEgOc9lXiyE2LsBRZgZhRQGpNCnFgdp_FogtOPxWc_Y9xkIL8lre7TXDJYDvrjLIcT/w400-h400/Worship%204.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />Join us Sunday for worship at 10:15 a.m.</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span>in person or online <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stpaulsboulder.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D430f2a0a9fb92694930cddacf%26id%3D01d074350c%26e%3D75372c7e49&source=gmail&ust=1711298691821000&usg=AOvVaw3ddCoby7rktYI6BSsZY8IX" href="https://stpaulsboulder.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=430f2a0a9fb92694930cddacf&id=01d074350c&e=75372c7e49" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. Preview Sunday's bulletin <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stpaulsboulder.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D430f2a0a9fb92694930cddacf%26id%3D730d910eb8%26e%3D75372c7e49&source=gmail&ust=1711298691821000&usg=AOvVaw34Zxf8_RjsIfN8xs8L9siY" href="https://stpaulsboulder.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=430f2a0a9fb92694930cddacf&id=730d910eb8&e=75372c7e49" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. Amy Abshire will lead us in worship.</span></span><p></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-20618719941877072352024-03-23T00:30:00.001-06:002024-03-23T00:30:00.132-06:00Devotional for March 23<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWD_fMjMu-Ds-RkqeHUc7j7rO-qke8VOrOnJGDtKae1r83sm-n0xHVdDF_PVX3zZbXhO_xAK48ZBjaNjkaBLt1oGbrUBqDoWxl4SLbVaDdcS7kz-j4OVEn62ljjH5ObJ86vDmLGlz9sVzTprWQ1neQQ-e07vZCNQdErqLMVmzGuFVuxxCoVcwkPLgAfTX/s4032/IMG_3902.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWD_fMjMu-Ds-RkqeHUc7j7rO-qke8VOrOnJGDtKae1r83sm-n0xHVdDF_PVX3zZbXhO_xAK48ZBjaNjkaBLt1oGbrUBqDoWxl4SLbVaDdcS7kz-j4OVEn62ljjH5ObJ86vDmLGlz9sVzTprWQ1neQQ-e07vZCNQdErqLMVmzGuFVuxxCoVcwkPLgAfTX/w300-h400/IMG_3902.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Infinite excellence is thine,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou glorious Prince of grace!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thy uncreated beauties shine<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With never-fading rays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sinner, from earth’s remotest end,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Come bending at thy feet;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To thee their prayers and songs ascend<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thee their wishes meet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Millions of happy spirits live<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On thy exhaustless store;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From thee they all their bliss receive,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And still thou givest more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art their triumph and their joy;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They find their all in thee;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The glories will their tongues employ<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Through all eternity.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></p></div>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-76738373742116367732024-03-22T00:30:00.002-06:002024-03-22T06:55:20.012-06:00Devotional for March 22 <p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVqDnqRpXoAxfvF05A89myzPqo8waNDjXm7M2fI0bPKYSCtpGeH43KKCGbLZx7NhyC3ii0au9rz54Wx_P0ZL_Cw5JFmwlw9VwOXdslY0sXMkPOrpD-jcEGvCHyYO6Jj-GqR-9itP8oozubqoHmFnW_TYVdiGbigoyIUPzuSgpDymxBgOlnzEgGqAYkZHfN/s4032/IMG_3905.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVqDnqRpXoAxfvF05A89myzPqo8waNDjXm7M2fI0bPKYSCtpGeH43KKCGbLZx7NhyC3ii0au9rz54Wx_P0ZL_Cw5JFmwlw9VwOXdslY0sXMkPOrpD-jcEGvCHyYO6Jj-GqR-9itP8oozubqoHmFnW_TYVdiGbigoyIUPzuSgpDymxBgOlnzEgGqAYkZHfN/w300-h400/IMG_3905.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lord of earth, and air, and sea,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Supreme in power and grace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Under thy protection we<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Our souls and bodies place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bold an unknown land to try,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We launch into the foaming deep;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rock, and storms, and depths defy,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With Jesus in the ship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Who the calm can understand,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In a believer’s breast?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the hollow of his hand<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Our souls securely rest:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Winds may rise, and seas may roar;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We on his love our spirits stay;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Him with quiet adore<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Whom the winds and seas obey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-47292883838247299822024-03-21T01:30:00.002-06:002024-03-21T17:56:24.075-06:00Prayers for the upcoming General Conference<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizW4M18_KqCE9Qq_YpURHVAU69ujjxYMPKK03mp6Eav3nu6KOjvmnO8h85qO0jYypwJpRf0rUQnvH-3DG8CofLA-NIcY6gkEzZ8oTeySeQz2RIrRQ35tJ3RrV2foCZgM6MAi8upIW1D2wIZnQzjyBz4-rCMeUFwWHlpMEO_gOaUCuMPElH6ik54N16c450/s320/candle.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizW4M18_KqCE9Qq_YpURHVAU69ujjxYMPKK03mp6Eav3nu6KOjvmnO8h85qO0jYypwJpRf0rUQnvH-3DG8CofLA-NIcY6gkEzZ8oTeySeQz2RIrRQ35tJ3RrV2foCZgM6MAi8upIW1D2wIZnQzjyBz4-rCMeUFwWHlpMEO_gOaUCuMPElH6ik54N16c450/w315-h400/candle.gif" width="315" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />D<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">uring this season of preparation, please pray for our delegates to the General Conference and/or lift up your thoughts of hope and prosperity for our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">connection. </span></span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Visit the <a href="https://www.mtnskyumc.org/light-a-candle" target="_blank"><b>Mountain Sky Conference website</b></a> and light a candle, sharing your personal sentiments. </span></div></div>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-63570217288936440362024-03-21T00:30:00.001-06:002024-03-21T00:30:00.256-06:00Devotional for March 21<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeu50SNgfczBrzH9X9eC0FjBKzrbBKL57OJH193D4CvvOcBU0g5HwXJ6Ycxl-BPY-bgHKdJu30_MYMP-aAuOlMoowDPQkgEMFINvwqnP3CRCJepvxdqB9XO8p3U0g2M4UAr2yKDLzM_VkPliNS9202j1OSwjUMdVcuy77NeYHSvqJXiBz-GooEHUgdYa1/s4029/IMG_3918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4029" data-original-width="2905" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeu50SNgfczBrzH9X9eC0FjBKzrbBKL57OJH193D4CvvOcBU0g5HwXJ6Ycxl-BPY-bgHKdJu30_MYMP-aAuOlMoowDPQkgEMFINvwqnP3CRCJepvxdqB9XO8p3U0g2M4UAr2yKDLzM_VkPliNS9202j1OSwjUMdVcuy77NeYHSvqJXiBz-GooEHUgdYa1/w289-h400/IMG_3918.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Infinite excellence is thine,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou glorious Prince of grace!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thy uncreated beauties shine<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With never-fading rays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sinner, from earth’s remotest end,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Come bending at thy feet;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To thee their prayers and songs ascend<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thee their wishes meet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Millions of happy spirits live<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On thy exhaustless store;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From thee they all their bliss receive,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And still thou givest more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art their triumph and their joy;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They find their all in thee;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The glories will their tongues employ<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Through all eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; text-align: center;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-73020234700832594932024-03-20T01:30:00.001-06:002024-03-20T01:30:00.266-06:00Wednesday with the Wesleys<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHHkUa7URA7lrnyNghfamwGAARTI-MCo0ZMi2rQOTnHaDQvRr2SemGNTCvPAmwG3zZXT9p_Ux7gj11ik_tbAOnPoLIo4qPecSfThDjfK3WzG0F5Liv6DCgkMwm0PL4QrJs0X4P0v1av-6QfXeKZIDDLL9cENQmEAxK5UN4BH3OFf_tqcWxmFn3G4T15T9/s789/417440269_900689318728038_842080290329756440_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHHkUa7URA7lrnyNghfamwGAARTI-MCo0ZMi2rQOTnHaDQvRr2SemGNTCvPAmwG3zZXT9p_Ux7gj11ik_tbAOnPoLIo4qPecSfThDjfK3WzG0F5Liv6DCgkMwm0PL4QrJs0X4P0v1av-6QfXeKZIDDLL9cENQmEAxK5UN4BH3OFf_tqcWxmFn3G4T15T9/w286-h400/417440269_900689318728038_842080290329756440_n.jpg" width="286" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />"Help me, O Lord, to make a true use of all disappointments and calamities in this life, in such a way that they may unite my heart more closely with You. Cause them to separate my affections from worldly things, and inspire my soul with more vigor in the pursuit of true happiness."</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">~ Susanna Annesley Wesley</span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-40327420698299151072024-03-20T00:30:00.002-06:002024-03-20T13:21:21.019-06:00Devotional for March 20<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihJiHC6jAp3gfczdzh5FdZNu2GpdHlGWqyAgtceriI35pAkIsFcjbXti-rXNlPpte3UqIkCpLfLFnG0QDjXySOKu99iRXgQhO1Su3NLN-HDP97ViudHZEBXZd3BrCagxyQffqqsSZIN_5HyRTQkkHpWIrEFZS-N0IewkmLNByLkQIV-mogWILf-86g89yf/s2924/IMG_3916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2924" data-original-width="2523" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihJiHC6jAp3gfczdzh5FdZNu2GpdHlGWqyAgtceriI35pAkIsFcjbXti-rXNlPpte3UqIkCpLfLFnG0QDjXySOKu99iRXgQhO1Su3NLN-HDP97ViudHZEBXZd3BrCagxyQffqqsSZIN_5HyRTQkkHpWIrEFZS-N0IewkmLNByLkQIV-mogWILf-86g89yf/w345-h400/IMG_3916.jpg" width="345" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Father, if thou must reprove<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For all that I have done,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not in anger, but in love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Chastise thine humbled son,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Use the rod, and not the sword;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Correct with kind severity;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bring me not to nothing,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lord, but bring me home to thee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">True and faithful as thou art<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To all thy church and me,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Give a new, believing heart,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That knows, and cleaves to, thee;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">O Jesus, to be fill’d with thee,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art ours, and we are thine,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Through all eternity!</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;">Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-38038637515979116442024-03-19T01:30:00.013-06:002024-03-20T21:40:38.682-06:00Mountain View UMC mission event<p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NKWs6bbRvA6ZdwO3exUJAd2_cMx_FhJ1WNfudConcMmIaPXzmHpGcPdp7skjfHnTSeZ2TuVf-AFStU_eU4hoj4_7k7laaQFI3AM-2oxogOBjCqr6sOQZRf6JhBgF4Rf3WZ-fsRakra1GoQ4xLxpLunFFbQ88ZDFJP5UyhdRH9VDDx8kglUs1fWTfMM63/s2048/432768102_735490508728313_3203740944522292012_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="2048" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NKWs6bbRvA6ZdwO3exUJAd2_cMx_FhJ1WNfudConcMmIaPXzmHpGcPdp7skjfHnTSeZ2TuVf-AFStU_eU4hoj4_7k7laaQFI3AM-2oxogOBjCqr6sOQZRf6JhBgF4Rf3WZ-fsRakra1GoQ4xLxpLunFFbQ88ZDFJP5UyhdRH9VDDx8kglUs1fWTfMM63/w400-h259/432768102_735490508728313_3203740944522292012_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />"The Mountain View UMC mission team, heading to Guatemala on May 2 - </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia;">9, is hoping that you can join us for dinner and a show on March 23. The dinner will begin at 5 p.m. and it is a 'free will' offering for the meal and the show. Our address is 355 Ponca Pl., and we have plenty of parking in the church lot, along the streets and even at the school across the street.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Rev. Skip Strickland, our former pastor and DS, has coordinated a great group of musicians for the show. Rev. </span><span style="color: #333333;">Skip and Gaynor, now billing as Skip and Gayn, will begin the show at 5:30 p.m. They will be followed by a solo artist, Mark Heiss. The Weld County Ramblers will finish the evening with a longer set and we should conclude the evening by 7:30 p.m. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">We are developing a fantastic menu of Guatemalan food--main course and sides--and I KNOW you all have been hankering for a great dinner with friends and family. I invite fellow church members, friends, neighbors, and music enthusiasts. </span><span style="color: #333333;">Several of your United Women in Faith sisters will be participating in this mission trip and we plan to visit "our" young woman, Sebastiana, whom our unit supports through Pura Vida. </span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-29521471531154804402024-03-19T00:30:00.001-06:002024-03-20T13:20:52.467-06:00Devotional for March 19<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw9K8tq-J2HUIm0gC3Fus1knBDpgy1t4C0aWxPf1bp3f2ELPDaesjWXJ5Ku1JPlZ03uFCT9QnY4C4l8Yrzy0H2qMSAlHCl5QTfLPX50aTlyVtPPTTpGxbSb9tAvZeRB5M8nVEbJ2rqgzJ1n-dZ41W5UUZDbyHaObRh8owGBzfNPqqOSB1SyvjiEycTPcl/s4032/IMG_3901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw9K8tq-J2HUIm0gC3Fus1knBDpgy1t4C0aWxPf1bp3f2ELPDaesjWXJ5Ku1JPlZ03uFCT9QnY4C4l8Yrzy0H2qMSAlHCl5QTfLPX50aTlyVtPPTTpGxbSb9tAvZeRB5M8nVEbJ2rqgzJ1n-dZ41W5UUZDbyHaObRh8owGBzfNPqqOSB1SyvjiEycTPcl/w300-h400/IMG_3901.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Saviour, now in me perform<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> The work thou hast begun;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Be my shelter from the storm,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My shadow from the sun:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Weary, parch’d with thirst, and faint,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Till thou the’ abiding Spirit breath:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ever moment, Lord, I want<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The merit of thy death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Never shall I want it less<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When thou the gift hast given,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fill’d me with thy righteousness,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And seal’d the heir of heave;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I will trust in thee, my God,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Till I thy perfect glory see;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Till the sprinkling of thy blood<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Shall speak me up to thee.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt;">With Tunes for Congregational Worship </span><span lang="en-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-indent: 0pt;">(1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-52604629219839541292024-03-18T02:30:00.003-06:002024-03-20T13:22:24.591-06:00This week @ St. Paul's UMC<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFh7O_HMxufUMYpA9OBd7D7Zz-jCbBQ_eSZ40i4TylH2V1U4DFXi5b6974vI9c7QxEQzks5bgUwx60c-IyxGnY4T2pFUupEfyTQ5_zpPbj1Dx7iPOKxSd3BdVPuIhhCGeEJ2CIU39LFYerlXHgXoA6IWNpMxqTu9HeH5qZvg2B2dG7XrHrdu4uJy42PLpr/s474/OIP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFh7O_HMxufUMYpA9OBd7D7Zz-jCbBQ_eSZ40i4TylH2V1U4DFXi5b6974vI9c7QxEQzks5bgUwx60c-IyxGnY4T2pFUupEfyTQ5_zpPbj1Dx7iPOKxSd3BdVPuIhhCGeEJ2CIU39LFYerlXHgXoA6IWNpMxqTu9HeH5qZvg2B2dG7XrHrdu4uJy42PLpr/w400-h225/OIP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wednesday: </span></span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">10:00 AM, </span><span style="text-align: left;"><u><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/454017451" style="color: #cc0033; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Zoom Fellowship</a></u></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">7:30 PM, Choir practice</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Friday:</b><br />10:00 AM, Sew What @ the Coopers</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Saturday: </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6:00 AM, BBKC Prayer Time</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9:00 AM,<i> </i>Yoga class </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5:00 PM, Guatemala Mission Trip Dinner </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">@ Mountain View UMC</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Palm/Passion Sunday</span></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">8:30 AM, Bell practice </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">8:45 AM, Adult class</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">10:15 AM, Worship </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">11:15 AM, Fellowship </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">12:30 PM, BBKC </span><b style="text-align: left;"> </b></span></span></div></div>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-55620669938738259252024-03-18T01:30:00.001-06:002024-03-18T01:30:00.130-06:00Scripture lessons for Palm/Passion Sunday<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCSccMXXKymIOBJXri42cLrVdFYZUlboVmjToNSdyVT9d4HK3y7qxN1NpBI8wUw-3HuFq69RFOFZszXefJiVjXyWM3u521RepU15ZWf6VQMhXr2s1izgD8p4VgeC1DArH4nRZhqxG4ClJKT-O4Fn6xvCaA4IGLIRfgop4lkfFb6b61vuIWgwSTfmTpf2M/s400/img-5031_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCSccMXXKymIOBJXri42cLrVdFYZUlboVmjToNSdyVT9d4HK3y7qxN1NpBI8wUw-3HuFq69RFOFZszXefJiVjXyWM3u521RepU15ZWf6VQMhXr2s1izgD8p4VgeC1DArH4nRZhqxG4ClJKT-O4Fn6xvCaA4IGLIRfgop4lkfFb6b61vuIWgwSTfmTpf2M/w400-h300/img-5031_orig.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #626262; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #8d2424;">in passione et morte Domini</span></strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #626262; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">(on the passion and death of the Lord)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />We will be bringing our Lenten series from “Facing the Cross" to a conclusion next Sunday, looking at Pontius Pilate and Barabbas. Our lessons will come from <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2015%3A1-15&version=CEB,NRSVUE" target="_blank">Mark 15:1-15</a> and <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27%3A11-26&version=CEB;NRSVUE" target="_blank">Matthew 27:11-26</a>.</span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-61086932568121569772024-03-18T00:30:00.004-06:002024-03-18T00:30:00.237-06:00Devotional for March 18<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB3-abiK-n4BkBF0V_gHW8p1YjlOCAOkdwAdCP7QUY4_bFKhAVUyH2CjhjVGrhLZGIZjBVVKkxwA7AVeJqsHz5tFPNhiD0oD-qd_fmqIWIMtSyWHJQW7F-CpN6YwMLPEUmHyabHfUx5-itVOShgo68Vt5KQ9-NML3PcOlmADdNnB35kid7fQQEQSkms4Kw/s4032/IMG_3899.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB3-abiK-n4BkBF0V_gHW8p1YjlOCAOkdwAdCP7QUY4_bFKhAVUyH2CjhjVGrhLZGIZjBVVKkxwA7AVeJqsHz5tFPNhiD0oD-qd_fmqIWIMtSyWHJQW7F-CpN6YwMLPEUmHyabHfUx5-itVOShgo68Vt5KQ9-NML3PcOlmADdNnB35kid7fQQEQSkms4Kw/w300-h400/IMG_3899.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jesus, the sinner’s friend, to thee,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lost and undone, for aid I flee;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Weary of earth, myself, and sin:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Open thine arms, and take me in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pity and heal my sin-sick soul;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">‘Tis thou alone canst make me whole;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dark, till in me thine image shine,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And lost, I am, till thou art mine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At last I own it cannot be<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That I should fit myself for thee:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here, then, to thee I all resign;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thine is the work, and only thine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What shall I say thy grace to move?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lord, I am sin,— but thou art love:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I give up every plea beside,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lord, I am lost—but thou has died.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship</i> (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).</span></span></span></p>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2851387833899857113.post-32174108271636250942024-03-17T11:38:00.003-06:002024-03-21T09:38:52.494-06:00March 17 @ St. Paul's UMC: Prayers<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh66UzZgAr_jSfBqMqJ4ZeZKoijmvr-5B6dQgN6MgiqAPaYCOzvuQRsUV_CK8WJNi9qfcMuiH5rc2t9dg8CypqTurDXRTblKSfiyLuwZO-ntOLc1P075DRjLdN4YvYyGNWB5cOmA85ImuXlAJWheda6M-sqY7ggD4JWdRl3lq4VXNQMj__KDyMktn7bh65M" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh66UzZgAr_jSfBqMqJ4ZeZKoijmvr-5B6dQgN6MgiqAPaYCOzvuQRsUV_CK8WJNi9qfcMuiH5rc2t9dg8CypqTurDXRTblKSfiyLuwZO-ntOLc1P075DRjLdN4YvYyGNWB5cOmA85ImuXlAJWheda6M-sqY7ggD4JWdRl3lq4VXNQMj__KDyMktn7bh65M=w315-h400" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br />Joys:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We give thanks this morning for Pastor Janeen Hill for responding to the call to bring today's sermon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">+Louise Cook celebrated that her brother-in-law is recovering well from back surgery.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We celebrate this week's birthdays: Jovanka Jones and Diane McKnight</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We give thanks for those participating in today's service: Belinda Alkula (videographer), Steve Bainbridge (greeter), Louise Cook (piano), Austin & Joan Cooper (flowers), Rebecca Glancy (liturgist), Etta Levitt (Zoom usher), Kathy Lloyd (Zoom host), and Myrle Myers (fellowship), and Suzanne Polacek (bells).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Concerns:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ Prayers are asked for Pastor Charles' recovery.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We lift up those impacted along the Front Range by last week's snowfall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">+ We continue to pray for the innocents suffering in Gaza.</span></div></div></div></div>St. Paul's United Methodist Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02551328590829133808noreply@blogger.com0