February 3: 4th Sunday after
Epiphany -- Service of Word and Table
9:20 am Worship -- Lectionary readings
from Micah 6: 1-8; 1 Corinthians 1: 18 – 31; and Matthew 5: 1-12 will inform
Rev. Susan’s sermon Blessed are the Upside Down. Holy Communion
will be served.
February 10: A Seeking
Peace with Justice Sunday -- Focus on "Jubilee"*
9:20 am Worship -- As we continue to recognize significant justice
issues that Lexington UMC has addressed during its 50 years, we will welcome
Frank D’Alessandro as our guest preacher and worship leader to lead
us in a service with Jubilee as its focus. Frank is a member
of the School Street UMC in Gorham, Maine and is a member of the Conference
Board of Church and Society where he works on the issue of Jubilee.
THE SEASON OF LENT
THE RESTORATIVE LOVE OF JESUS
February 13: ASH
WEDNESDAY
8:00 pm Worship with St. John’s Korean UMC
The lectionary readings from Joel 2: 1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51:
1-17; 2 Corinthians 5: 20b-6:10 and Matthew 6: 1-6, 16 – 21 will be the
texts for Rev. Susan’s sermon on Create in me a clean heart and Put
a right spirit within me. Ashes will be distributed and Holy
Communion served.
February 17: First Sunday in
Lent
9:00 am Holy Communion will be served in the Library.
9:20 am Worship -- Rev. Susan will begin this Lenten series on
The Restorative Love of Jesus by looking at the values and conduct
appropriate to life in Christ’s redemptive love as contrasted to the tragic
reality of the fall and the resulting cycle of violence. Lectionary
readings from Lent 1, from Genesis 2: 15 –17, 3: 1-7; Psalm 32; Romans
5: 12 – 19; and Matthew 4: 1-11 will be the lessons for this first Sunday
of Lent.
February 24: Second Sunday
in Lent
9:20 am Worship -- Rev. Landon Lindsay
will be welcomed back into the pulpit as part of our 50th Anniversary Celebration
as a former pastor of the Lexington UMC community. He will preach
on the lectionary readings from Genesis 12: 1-4a; Romans 4: 1-5, 13-17;
and John 3: 1-17. His sermon topic will be “Is God Reliable?” |