Easter is the first weekend of April and around the world Christians prepare for Easter starting 40-days out with the observance called Lent. This year we want to invite everyone during those 40 days to pray together on our way to Easter.
Starting February 17th, we’re going to drop a daily devotional that will end with prompts for how you might pray together with the whole church. That daily devotional will be both written AND there will be a short audio version that you can just listen to and pray along with as you drive, or go on a walk, or as you’re doing the dishes, etc.
We’ll be posting this new 7-day-a-week prayer invitation on our Facebook page and on Instagram--so be sure to like us on those social media platforms. We’ll also be distributing it through the Connect Devotional email list.
If you’re already getting the Connect Devotional, you’ll get that automatically. The daily email will include the link that you can click on in order to listen to CD on the Go and both the written devotional, too. If you’re not yet getting the Connect Devotional, you can be added to the email distribution list by
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COVID has taken so many things away from all of us, we want to invite you to join with our larger community to unite in praying together on our way to Easter.
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Click here to listen to this post! Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters (Romans 14:1). let us stop passing judgment on one another (Romans 14:13a). If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love (Romans 14:15a). The center, circumference, essence, magnetism of our faith is the love of God ...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! It's God we are answerable toall the way from life to death and everything in betweennot each other. That's why Jesus lived and died and then lived again: so that he could be our Master across the entire range of life and death, and free us from the petty tyrannies of each other.Romans 14:8,9 (MSG) In exploring how to Disagree Deeply, L...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.Each of us should please our neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christdid not please himself (Romans 15:1-3) Who gets to be pleased? Whose preferences prevail? Is it "my way or the highway"or is there another, better way? In Romans ...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! "Make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister." Romans 14:13b Is it just me, or do you ever want to say, "But my way is better"? Do you feel the longer you've done something, the more expert you feel? I've been grading compositions for years now; my system works best. I raised two childr...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! So whatever you believe about these [disputable matters], keep between yourself and God Accept one another, just as Christ accepted you " (Romans 14:22, 15:7). This week we will conclude our series Disagree Deeply, Love Deeper Still. But perhaps it's better to say that we're only just beginning to grapple with this matter of how we can ...
Keep ReadingTo listen to this post click here! No good tree bears bad fruit nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the ove...
Keep ReadingTo listen to this post click here! "No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers (Luke 6:43, 44). I spent a few summers during college working at a fruit experiment station. There were all kinds of varieties of fruit grown there for research pu...
Keep ReadingTo listen to this post click here! No good tree bears bad fruit nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the ove...
Keep ReadingTo listen to this post click here! For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of (Luke 6:45b). Before Marie Kondo taught us to toss things that didn't "spark joy" I was already really good at throwing things out (or finding them new homes). Moving multiple times the last ten years means I've perfected the art of purging belongings, and yes: I would argue that it is inde...
Keep ReadingTo listen to this post click here! Wednesday, February 17 I'd like to welcome you to CD on the Go! and use today's Connect Devotional to introduce and orient you to this enhanced format for Chatham Church's daily devotional. Our team of gifted writers will continue crafting a daily devotional that is keyed to our current sermon series and the Scripture passages that go ...
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