Palm Sunday – Intergenerational Worship March 20th, 10 a.m., First Baptist Church in Essex This week during worship, in place of a sermon, we will be telling & enacting the story of Palm Sunday. The storytelling will engage all ages, adults and children alike, and will include meaningful activities to prepare us for our journey through Holy Week. Maundy […]
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March 16th, Wednesday, 6 p.m. First Baptist Church in Essex, 10 Prospect Street, Essex, CT Childcare will be provided. Zahir Mannan will share his faith story and teach about the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Zahir leads a weekly Holy Quran study group at Baitul Aman “House of Peace” Mosque in Meriden, CT, where he also teaches an advanced […]
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Luke 13:1-9 A couple of weeks ago, we began our Lenten journey into the wilderness. On the Way, we learned that the wilderness has something to teach us. We heard the story of Emily who journeyed to sobriety, and took the fifth step of Alcoholics Anonymous, confessing to God, herself, and another human being the […]
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Luke 13:31-35 In the Scripture today, Jesus is on the Way to Jerusalem. As Jesus travels on the way, I imagine Jesus encounters many people, like a man who was lonely, a woman who was hungry, a young person who was laden with debt, and an elderly person who was trembling with anxiety. When Jesus […]
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Luke 4:1-13 The wilderness had an emptiness to it. When Jesus looked around, he could see caramel-colored dirt and rocks stretchig out to the horizon. From the rock he was sitting, Jesus couldn’t see where the desert ended but he knew that it would continue– with its hills and ravines and jagged contours – all […]
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