March 26th

Not just skin deep

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March 26, 2023   

Series:   A Table in the Wilderness

Modeled after Jesus’ forty days in the desert, Lent is a time to become more open to God through the vulnerabilities of life. It comes with an especially poignant invitation to join with others in bringing our doubt, fear, sorrow, loneliness, and dryness before God, hoping to taste God’s promised provision in the deserts of life.  Can God really spread a table before us in the presence of global and personal fears and sorrow? The answer, of course, is yes! God spreads a table before us in the wilderness, in the face of all our greatest fears (Psalm 23:5). This series highlights one biblical character each week along with the way God provided food for them in their wildernesses.  

LENT 5           ‘Not just skin deep’

Scripture:      1 Samuel 25

"Abigail's beauty is both inner and outer. Her lovely appearance is balanced in the text by the word "discretion" (v. 33). Abigail is as beautiful inwardly as she is outwardly. Abigail's beauty is a witness to the God-created, God-sustained, God-blessed life that's everywhere present but frequently obscured by willfulness and blasphemy. Abigail's beauty surprises David out of his sudden plunge into ugliness, and he sees and hears God again." - Eugene Peterson, Leap Over the Wall, pg. 85.

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