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
,sh &ednesday
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$saiah 27#72:7;
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