Everything In Between || Rest & Growth || The Third Sunday in Lent
Sunday, March 23, 2025 || 11:00am
Grace Rogers || Howard & Mary Martin Ministry Intern
During this sacred season of Lent, you are invited to step beyond the black-and-white binaries we are prone to create and instead look for God in the complexity of life’s polarities. Jesus’ ministry consistently challenged societal divisions as he called a stigmatized Samaritan a good neighbor, valued one lost sheep out of 100, and extended grace to a criminal on the cross. These “extreme” words and actions were meant to disrupt cultural, political, and religious divides, revealing the radical, all-inclusive love of God that still speaks to the divides we experience in our families, churches, and communities today.
This Sunday, we will tackle the challenging parable of the gardener in the vineyard who knows the fig tree needs rest, nutrients, and time—and that it also needs to produce fruit. Together we will ponder the critical need of rest and growth and how in the between time—of nurture before fruit—is often where transformation begins.
Join us for worship on the third Sunday in Lent as we ponder the power of Rest and Growth.