“Christian Life: Journey of Faith”

Rev. Emelia Attridge begins a worship series for Lent 2025 reflecting on the different windows in our church, highlighting the biblical stories they depict and the stories of the lives of former church members who are memorialized in the windows' dedications. Click here to view the bulletin for this week (and see the image of the window Rev. Emelia is speaking about in the sermon). 

Matthew 19:13-14  (New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition)

Then children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”

Luke 21:1-14 (New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition)

He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them, for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

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