Many thanks to all those who have made our Lenten Study series such a great experience...I include both the speakers and those who have come with questions and comments. It has been a very inspiring couple of meetings and there are more to come! Steve Crowe and Jim Ramsey really set the tone for the meetings with their straight forward comments and suggestions about making dialogue work between people who see things differently. This week Tom Saviello and Nate Libby offered us some important insight into how civil dialogue can be part of the political process. Tom suggests that politics works when there is friendship, trust, and respect among participants at all levels of government. Nate adds that in his opinion what makes dialogue possible is ...knowing what to bring up and what to leave on the table...to always be skepticle and look carefully at all dialogue...and finally, give others the benefit of the doubt. Good wisdom and a good meeting...definetly blessed by the Jesus who was "in the center" of our discussion.

Is there a right way to pray? A friend asked me this and it got me thinking. The Bible as a guide certainly contains many kinds of prayers, from all kinds of people, under all kinds of circumstances. Some of my favorites are in the Psalms. They indicate that God hears all sorts of prayers from all sorts of people under all kinds of conditions. Some are glad and sing their praise for God's help. Some are sad or sick or discouraged and share their complaints their laments. Some are downright angry and cry out for God to hear them and not remain so distant and silent. some are prayers for self and country and king...Some are for others and for the needs of family and friends. All these prayers are heard in their amazing variety by a God who loves and nurtures and corrects and speaks to those who come to him with little faith or great faith. Is there a right way to pray...not the way we mean right...following someone's rules laid down for us...Prayer is a thing of the heart...a cry in the night...joy in the morning...time to talk with one who knows us better than we know ourselves and still loves to hear from us.

Holy Week Schedule

Palm Sunday

         March 24 - 10 a.m. Worship

Good Friday 

          Evening Service March 29^th at 7 p.m.

Easter Sunday

           6 a.m. Sunrise Service and Breakfast

           10 a. m. Easter Worship

Lenten Study Series - Schedule

 

Lenten Prayer and Study meetings, on Wednesday evenings here at the church at 7 p.m.  

          Our focus will be “How to Make Peace in a Divided World”  

February 20^th “The things that divide us! Bringing us together!”
          Jim Ramsey and Steve Crowe

February 26^th  “Politics! Can the Left and Right talk to each other?
          Tom Saviello

March 6^th  “Love, Sex and Marriage “ 
          Al Fletcher and Scot Dow 

March 13^th.  "How Business and Faith Talk to Each Other"
          Tim Downing

March 20^th   “Gun Rights and Gun Violence”

                    at the Norridgewock Congregational Church.
          Maine Game Warden

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