Bulletin Insert: Life Transformed – Week 5 – March 26, 2023
The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving, and death; then, we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, communities are invited to walk with Jesus in his Way of Love and into the experience of transformed life. Together, we will reflect anew on the loving actions of God as recounted in the Easter Vigil readings. Together, we will walk through the depths of salvation history into the fullness of redemption.
Throughout Lent, come along with us as we explore Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent, produced by Hillary Raining and Jenifer Gamber. You can find resources mentioned below at iam.ec/lifetransformed or by scanning the QR code to the right.
Week 5
Sunday, March 26
Today’s Practice: Watch the Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining’s video at iam.ec/lifetransformed for Week 5. The topic is based on the practice “Rest” and is titled, “The Valley of Dry Bones”.
Read: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Monday, March 27
Today’s Prompt: What seminal moments have informed a need to return to Christ?
Read: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.” – Psalm 51:10
Tuesday, March 28
Today’s Prompt: How has this Way with God impacted your experience of God?
Read: “Let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” – John 7:38
Wednesday, March 29
Today’s Prompt: Slowly read this passage aloud. How does this speak to the world today?
Read: “As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen. And he said to them, ‘Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.’ Immediately they left their nets and followed him. As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.” – Matthew 4:18-22
Thursday, March 30
Today’s Prompt: What relationships do you need to mend?
Read: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9
Friday, March 31
Today’s Prompt: Where might God be asking you to take your great love into the world?
Read: “You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forward I make you hear new things, hidden things that you have not known.” – Isaiah 48:6b
Saturday, April 1
Today’s Prompt: What are you thankful for?
Read: “For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.” – 1 Chronicles 29:15
Reflections from “Living the Way of Love” by Mary Bea Sullivan (Church Publishing, 2019). Used with permission. Quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
26 de marzo de 2023 – Cuaresma 5 (A)
Semana 5: Una Vida Transformada: El Camino del Amor para la Cuaresma
El viaje a través de la Cuaresma hacia la Pascua es un viaje con Jesús. Somos bautizados en su vida, abnegación y muerte; entonces, nos elevamos a la esperanza de la vida transformados. Esta Cuaresma, las comunidades quedan invitadas a caminar con Jesús en su Camino de Amor y con la experiencia de la vida transformada. Juntos, reflexionaremos de nuevo sobre las acciones amorosas de Dios tal como se relatan en las lecturas de la Vigilia Pascual. Juntos, caminaremos a través de las profundidades de la historia de la salvación hacia la plenitud de la redención. A lo largo de la Cuaresma, acompáñenos mientras exploramos: Una Vida Transformada: El Camino del Amor para la Cuaresma, producido por Hillary Raining y Jenifer Gamber. Puede encontrar los recursos que se mencionan a continuación en iam.ec/lifetransformed o escaneando el código QR a la derecha.
Semana 5
26 de marzo
Aviso de hoy: Vea el video de la Rvda. Dra. Hillary Raining en iam.ec/lifetransformed para la semana 5. El tema se basa en la práctica “Descansar” y se titula “El valle de los huesos secos”.
Lea esto: Ezequiel 37:1-14
27 de marzo
Aviso de hoy: ¿Qué momentos fundamentales te han informado de la necesidad de regresar a Cristo?
Lea esto: “Oh Dios, ¡pon en mí un corazón limpio!, ¡dame un espíritu nuevo y fiel!” – Salmo 51:10
28 de marzo
Aviso de hoy: ¿Cómo ha impactado este Camino con Dios en tu experiencia de Dios?
Lea esto: “De aquel que cree en mí, como dice la Escritura, brotarán ríos de agua viva.” – Juan 7:38
29 de marzo
Aviso de hoy: Tómete 20 minutos en oración contemplativa hoy.
Lea esto: Mateo 4:18-22
30 de marzo
Aviso de hoy: ¿Qué relaciones necesitas reparar?
Lea esto: “Porque mis ideas no son como las de ustedes, y mi manera de actuar no es como la suya. Así como el cielo está por encima de la tierra, así también mis ideas y mi manera de actuar están por encima de las de ustedes.» El Señor lo afirma.” – Isaías 55:8-9
31 de marzo
Aviso de hoy: ¿A dónde te estará pidiendo Dios que lleves tu gran amor por el mundo?
Lea esto: “Tú has oído todo esto; fíjate en ello, y tendrás que admitir que es cierto. Ahora te voy a anunciar cosas nuevas, cosas secretas que no conocías.” – Isaías 48: 6b
1 de abril
Aviso de hoy: ¿Cuáles son tus motivos de agradeciminto?
Lea esto: “Pues ante ti somos como extranjeros que están de paso, igual que lo fueron todos nuestros antepasados, y nuestra vida sobre la tierra es como una sombra, sin ninguna esperanza.” – 1 Crónicas 29:15
Reflexiones de “Living the Way of Love” de Mary Bea Sullivan (Church Publishing, 2019). Usado con permiso. Citas bíblicas: Dios habla hoy ®, © Sociedades Bíblicas Unidas, 1966, 1970, 1979, 1983, 1996.
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