Author: Arnie Wierenga

EASTER 5

Many in
our society
live on the edges,
the margins, and I wonder
whether we in the institutional church
make it easy for them
to seek and
find God.

Rev. Moira Dodsworth

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EASTER 4

We
might picture
a Shepherd-Lord figure
with cute clean lambs, like
the Sunday School prints,
but that was never
honest.

Rev. Ian Brown

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EASTER 3

If your
leader is dead
and you fear it’s all over,
you might at best be embarrassed,
but perhaps you could be
locked away with the
ghosts in your
head.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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EASTER 2

He
graciously
offered to Thomas
all that he required for belief.

Rev. Sandra Houghton

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EASTER

Frozen
with fear,
she cried to be
picked up and comforted.
Whatever she was seeing,
however magnificent,
was not what she
expected.

Rev. Jennie Gordon

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Good Friday

No one
there that day,
including the Romans
who did the deed, would ever
have agreed to call it
“Good Friday.”

Rev. Ian Brown

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Palm Sunday

And so it begins –
this dangerous ride
into Jerusalem.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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Lent 5

Your conscience
and your passions and
your motivations are all under
the instruction and engraving of the
God who loves you enough
to stamp you with
a covenant
of love.

Rev. Deacon Wendy Elson

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Lent 4

I had
imagined
our world would
breathe a sigh of relief
as we emerged from the pandemic,
but it looks as though we continue
to wander in a new
wilderness.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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Lent 3

Here’s
Jesus making
a whip out of cords,
which is a craft in itself
and should be applauded,
and then taking action
into his own
hands.

Rev. Jennie Gordon

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