Title: The Elder Son
This week’s lesson is from the The Elder Son’s view from the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
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February 24, 2021 Lenten Service: The Prodigal Son
Title: The Prodigal Son
This week’s lesson is from the Prodigal Son’s view from the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
February 21 2021 Service: Welcome To the Great Fast
Title: Welcome To the Great Fast
Scripture: Psalm 25:1-10
Lent is a season for self-reflection: what is keeping me from deeper faith, getting in the way of my following the way of Jesus.
Psalm 25 is a wonderful hymn, a perfect prayer for us as we begin Lent this year.
Pastor Glen Ash Wednesday 2021
On Ash Wednesday (Feb. 17) we will begin our Lenten exploration of what we know as the parable of the Prodigal Son. Each week, one of the local Cannon Falls pastors will invite us to reflect on how our lives might intersect with the life of one of the characters in the story. We begin this Wednesday with my reflection on the whole parable as a story of an entire family being lost.
January 24, 2021 Service
Sermon title: What Happened at Work Today, Honey?
Text: Mark 1:14-20
When Jesus said, “Follow me,” the first disciples seemed to drop everything without a thought and take off after him, leaving everything else behind. How we read that story reveals what we believe about Jesus and the disciples. And about ourselves. Rather than feel like, “I could never do that,” I think we actually can. And now is the right time to do just what they did.
https://youtu.be/N2UPF51WrUk
November 29, 2020 Service : Advent Hope
Title: Advent Hope
Scripture Lesson: Isaiah 64
Isaiah reminded Israel of the God who had been with them and saved in ways they had not expected and could not have anticipated.
Advent is a time to remember our hope is in the same God, who surprised the world by appearing as an infant, and surprise us still with a radical gospel of justice, peace, and forgiveness.
November 1, 2020 Service – Grief: It’s a Teacher
Scpriture: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
Our losses come in all shapes and sizes, but each one may contain a lesson. If we are patient with ourselves in our grieving, and long to find some meaning that can not only help us heal but reshape our lives, what we can learn from our pain might be valuable to us and for others.
October 4, 2020 Worship Service
First Congregational Church of Cannon Falls MN October 4, 2020 Worship Service
Sermon title: In God’s Hands
The reading from Leviticus is instruction on presenting loaves of bread on the altar, 12 loaves, one for each of the 12 tribes of Israel, to remind God of the faithfulness of all Israel.
In God’s Hands is a picture book, an ancient Jewish folktale retold by Lawrence Kushner and Gary Schmidt. It is a reminder to us that ordinary deeds, done in faith, can create their own miracles.
Scripture – Leviticus 24:5-9
Pastor Glen Herrington-Hall
Music by Dawn Husmann
September 6, 2020 Worship Service
First Congregational Church of Cannon Falls MN September 6, 2020 Worship Service
Sermon title: The Sign of the Cross
Most of us may think of the cross as a symbol of Jesus’ death and resurrection, the ultimate sacrifice paid
for our sins and our salvation. I want us to think about the cross as a witness to the power of God’s love,
and our call to live out that love in opposition to the forces that continue to put to death God’s way of love in the world.
And what does that love look like? Paul spells it out for us pretty clearly, and I believe such love is the true sign of the cross.
Scripture – Romans 12:9-21, 13:8-14
Pastor Glen Herrington-Hall
Music by Dawn Husmann
A Pandemic Pentecost – May 31, 2020 Service
A Pandemic Pentecost – May 31, 2020 Service
Acts 2:1-8, 12-24, & 32-36
What Christians recognize as Pentecost took place on a Jewish harvest festival, when the city of Jerusalem was filled with people form many paces seeking many different languages. It was not just an event, though, it was a vision of what was and is to come: a world transformed, lives changed, boundaries broken, God’s spirit setting people free. And more than a vision, it is our vocation.