Holy Week invites us, year after year, into something we cannot fully understand but are asked to enter anyway — the final days of Jesus’ life on earth.
These days carry within them the whole of the human story: betrayal and tenderness, suffering and surrender, death and the unimaginable dawn of resurrection. One of the most intimate ways to enter this week is simply to sit with the gospel accounts themselves (Matthew 26–28; Mark 11–16; Luke 22 – 24:12; John 13–20), allowing the story to read us as much as we read it.
We also want to gently extend an invitation to join us for our Good Friday service on Friday, April 3rd at 8PM. In this 40-minute gathering, we will enter together into the somber beauty of Jesus’ final hours. It will not be graphic, but it will be honest — an opportunity to let your heart truly feel the weight of what Jesus willingly chose for us.
Good Friday holds tension. And perhaps that tension is not something to escape, but something to embrace. It is in the tension of winter’s cold darkness that roots quietly deepen, preparing the tree for what is to come. It is in the resistance of the workout where muscles are broken down and rebuilt. It is in the ache of absence that reunion becomes gift. We so often run from tension, yet it is precisely there that something real — something new — is being formed in us.
We invite you to not look away this year. To sit in the tension of Good Friday, so that Sunday’s resurrection might be even brighter for us.
Good Friday Service
Friday, April 3. 8PM in the sanctuary.