Ever feel like you really needed somebody to walk in your shoes? To truly understand you… for you. Pastor Kevin Yoho’s message, Who’s Walking In Your Shoes?, from John 1:14 will offer assurance that God loves and knows you so well because Jesus walks in your shoes! Knows where you’ve been and where you’re going. The Lenten journey begins as we walk with Jesus where we are. Then we can be empowered to walk in other’s shoes, too, as we serve the neighborhood and make new connections of hope.
The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020. What a perfect time to experience God’s love In our neighborhood as we begin our Lenten journey, the journey to Holy Week, Easter, and beyond! Invite a neighbor. All are welcomed to this 45-minute, come as you are, energizing event! Complimentary lunch, follows.
Cold Spring Presbyterian Church will offer a special worship experience from noon to 12:45 pm. Ash Wednesday was designated centuries ago to recognizes our fragility and mortality, were it not for the grace of God. In humility, but also with confidence in Christ, we ask that the Lord remember once more our entire creation and breathe new life into our burned-out, dusty lives, communities, and the world. This is a service for the imposition of ashes for those who wish to receive them. Pastor Kevin Yoho’s message, Who’s Walking In Your Shoes, will offer assurance that God walks with us every day right where we are, inviting us to make new neighborhood connections. Invite a neighbor as we begin our Lenten journey toward the cross, and at last on Easter, April 12, remember that dusty Lenten Road is quenched by the Living Water that gives us new life.
(A great way to conclude your Lenten journey is to attend our Community Easter Sunrise service at Sunset Beach at 6:30 am, and our 10:30 Community Easter Celebration Worship in our historic red brick church on Sunday, April 12, 2020.)
“And whenever you fast, do not put on a dismal face like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:16-21).
Our neighbors are feeling more and more like strangers to one another every day. People report loneliness as a persistent experience more than 50% of the time. And our churches, for all their historical and intentional presence, have also become strangers in the community. Hoe can we turn strangers into friends? How can our places of mission and worship become more welcoming? Reach out and introduce yourself to a neighbor. Realize others are as awkward as you may be and still make the connection. Go ahead. During the Lenten journey, during the next 40 days, you may want to turn strangers into fellow travelers, companions, friends, to embrace God’s emerging future that leads to the cross and the empty tomb. “Don’t be a mean-faced people, cruel to grandmothers and babies alike” (Deut. 28:50). But, “Do be a place where the face of God can smile on others” (Num. 23:5). Putting on the Face of Grace is the Lenten Journey.
Around the tables you will find a pile of stones. Choose one to represent your burdens, your weights and fears, your stranger dangers, and remember as you carry this stone with you, that on Easter, at the end of the Lenten Journey, the stone was rolled away!
Honestly. Let’s ask ourselves:
What face does my neighborhood need to see in me today?
How will I put on the Face of Grace during the next 40 days?
The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019. What a perfect time to experience God’s love as we begin our Lenten journey! Invite a neighbor. All are welcomed to this 45-minute, come as you are, energizing event! Complimentary lunch, follows.
Cold Spring Presbyterian Church will offer a special worship experience from noon to 12:45 pm. Ash Wednesday was designated centuries ago to recognizes our fragility and mortality, were it not for the grace of God. In humility, but also with confidence in Christ, we ask that the Lord remember once more our entire creation and breathe new life into our burned-out, dusty lives, communities, and the world. This is a service for the imposition of ashes for those who wish to receive them. Pastor Kevin Yoho’s message, Putting On the Face of Grace, will offer assurance that though we are dust, we are baptized and commissioned dust, and our face should reflect God’s grace. Our face, and the face our church presents in the community, makes a huge difference. Invite a friend as we begin our Lenten journey toward the cross, and at last on Easter, April 21, remember that dusty Lenten Road is quenched by the Living Water gives us new life.
(A great way to conclude your Lenten journey is to attend our Community Easter Sunrise service at Sunset Beach at 6:45 am, and/or attend our 10:30 Community Easter Celebration Worship in our historic red brick church on Sunday, April 1, 2018.)
Cold Spring Church
780 Seashore Road
Cold Spring, NJ 08204 USA
609-884-4065