Sacred Saturday

What days do you highlight in your Holy Week Celebration? 

Palm Sunday

Holy Wednesday

Maunday Thursday

Good Friday

Sacred Saturday

Easter Sunday

There are five churches that I have been intimately connected with over my life and ministry and each one carried it’s own traditions over Holy Week. A few of the churches held a Sedar meal, footwashing times, Good Friday dramas, sunrise services, and even a midnight sacred Saturday bonfire. While gathering with our faith communities is important during Holy Week, we often tried to find a balance of church community time versus family time. Each community differs in what they are able to offer their communities. 

Perhaps one of the ways to serve your communities best during this week is to offer resources or suggest an activity for your people to engage their family at home.  Here’s one resource I helped write back in 2012 that might spur your creativity this season.   

Church Leaders are not God

Leadership in the church is often accompanied by pedestals that only set us up to fall off. This article interacts with the reality of our limited-ness. It encourages us to embrace our failures, repent and learn from them, and then move on to greater life. 

https://churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/321563-painful-cost-of-leadership.html 

Multiple Ways to Prepare for Worship

What steps do you take as someone coming into worship or someone leading worship? This article says there are many steps along the way and after that contribute to the whole worship experience for us as individuals and our communities.   

https://churchleaders.com/worship/worship-articles/297136-ways-really-prepare-worship-david-manner.html 

Hopefully this article enables you to think creatively about your own preparation for worship times. 

Practice Stillness

Feeling tired all the time? Do you find yourself making the excuse that you just don’t have time to do what you want? Stressed and don’t know how to cope? You might try practicing stillness. 

Here’s an article that talks about the benefits and practice of stillness.  

http://makewordsmatterforgood.com/2018/01/26/stillness-takes-work/ 

Psalm 46:10 “Be Still and Know that I am God” 

The Core of Discipleship

How would you define discipleship? Do you have a specific set of practices that help you fulfill this portion of the great commission? Here’s an article that tries to bring some focus to the idea of discipleship.  What is it and what it isn’t.  

Any thoughts? 

 https://relevantmagazine.com/god/what-christians-get-wrong-about-discipleship