Join Gonvick Lutheran Parish as we walk the exile path towards the cross. Each week we will build on the themes brought forth in Isaiah on the exiles journey from despair to hope.
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5/19/2018 Singing with the Exiles - Lent 2015
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The congregations of Samhold and United Lutheran of the Gonvick
Lutheran Parish
invite you to join them on a Lenten journey. We are using the
Lent Devotion, Singing
with the Exiles developed by Rev. Dr. R. Reed . Gathered by the
waters of Babylon!udean e"iles wistfully wondered# $s God for real%
$f so does he really care about us%
&ill this ever change% &hat does our future hold% God's
(eo(le watched their world
shatter into a million (ieces. They were demorali)ed and
disillusioned. Their disasterlooked terminal. Sound familiar% *o
you feel beaten u( lost hungry for (ur(ose and
belonging%
&ell just when $srael's history seems closed and controlled
by ho(eless Babylonianim(erial (olicy to the shock and sur(rise of
everyone the Lord will stir u( a king named
+yrus and a new e"odus will e"(lode in the desert. , Servant
will be wounded for our
transgressions and crushed for our ine-uities. The grass withers
the flower fades butthe &ord of /ur God will stand forever0
1$saiah 23#45 The e"iles are going home.
/ur worshi( schedule is as follows for the forty days of
Lent
