The Fig Tree Worship Resource

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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Lent 2

we daily
encounter
activists in our time
who are so passionate
about what it is they believe
that we can’t help but notice the
ways in which they speak
boldly and unashamedly
their message

Rev. Amanda Nicholas

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Lent 1

people are
dropped in a remote
wilderness and attempt to stay
completely isolated from
all the usual supports
of food, shelter
and kin.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

The Fig Tree Weekly Worship – 240218 Rev. Arnie Wierenga & Rev. Ian Brown	for PRINTING (pdf) for EDITING (docx)

Transfiguration of Jesus

It’s
tempting
to keep our head in
the clouds, but that’s hardly
much earthly
use.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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Epiphany 5

I sense
a hunger in
our world right now …
for making meaning in the
world’s meaningless soup of
abusive power, greed,
destruction, warfare,
hatred, racism…

Rev. Jennie Gordon

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Epiphany 4

It was a time
of dramatic social upheaval.
Families were leaving the country for cities
looking for work.

Rev. Arnie Wierenga

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