LENT  2024  - UNBOUNDED LOVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date              PREACHER                    Weekly theme                                                                                          O T                          NT

Lent 1

18/2/24     Joyce Pipet                   Unbounded love                                                                                     Genesis 9.8-17      Mark 1.9-15

Lent 2 

25/2/24    Andy Hardwick     Visit us with thy salvation                                             Genesis 17. 1-7, 15-16  Mark 8.31-38

Lent 3

3/3/24     Karen Murphy          Pure and spotless let us be                                                      Exodus 20.1-17    John 2.13-22

Lent 4

10/3/24   Judith Lincoln         Finish then thy new creation                                              Numbers 21:4-9  John 3.14-21

                         MOTHERING SUNDAY  AND COMMUNION                                                                

Lent 5

17/3/24   Robin Jenks     Changed from  glory into glory                                              Jeremiah 31:31-34  John 12.20-33

                         PASSION SUNDAY

Lent 6

24/3/24  Janice Barrett    Till we cast our crowns before thee                         Psalm 118.1-2, 19-29   Mark 11.1-11

                        PALM SUNDAY   

                            

    HOLY WEEK  

“Lost in Wonder, Love and Praise”

Maundy  Thursday

28/3/24   QUIET MORNING LED BY JUDITH LINCOLN WITH COMMUNION  10am -12

                                           “Lost in WONDER”

Good  Friday

29/3/24    GOOD FRIDAY MEDITATION LED BY WORSHIP TEAM = 10.30

                                           “Lost in LOVE”

EASTER  SUNDAY

 30/3/24              Judith Lincoln /Steve Marr – With Holy Communion

                                           "Lost in PRAISE”

LOW  SUNDAY

7/4/24     UNITED SECTION SERVICE  10.00 -  St Andrew's,  Bournville

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THE METHODIST CHURCH

WORSHIP RESOURCES 2024 LENT SERIES

Unbounded Love

God's love doesn't stay in the lines

Charles Wesley's famous hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Singing the Faith 503) talks about Jesus as ‘unbounded love’ – a kind of love that cannot be contained, that works in our lives and in our world to free us and heal us. Unbounded Love is the theme of the Lent campaign of the Methodist Church in 2024 – holding together our commitments to be a justice-seeking church, and a people who experience and proclaim the good news of God’s uncontainable love.  

The Gospel readings from the Sunday lectionary throughout Lent will be linked to  a line lifted from the hymn : “Love divine, all loves excelling”.

The themes are: 

• Week 1 - “Unbounded love”: Jesus’ baptism and wilderness experience – God’s love bursts the barriers of heaven, and then bursts into the realms of darkness. 

• Week 2 - “Visit us with thy salvation”: Losing our life (psyche) to find it – the ways we attempt to insulate ourselves from God’s love.   

• Week 3 - “Pure and spotless let us be”: Turning the tables in the Temple – corporate religious attempts to boundary God’s love. 

• Week 4 - “Finish then thy new creation”: God’s unbounded love for the cosmos. 

• Week 5 - “Changed from glory into glory”: Like a seed that has to die before it bears fruit, death is no barrier to God’s love. 

• Week 6 - “Till we cast our crowns before thee”: As Jesus entered Jerusalem the people responded by taking off their cloaks. What’s our equivalent?  

• Holy Week - “Lost in wonder, love, and praise!”: As Jesus becomes bound by his opponents, will God’s love stay bound?

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