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your faith enlivens your spirit and engages your mind as we celebrate God’s
love and healing for the world with the resurrection of Christ, our Risen Lord.

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READ THE SERMON

April 3, 2022 – 5th Sunday in Lent
Rev. Denise Clark-Jones

“A CHANGING LANDSCAPE”

Our poetic reading from Isaiah asserts that the gift of life can be found in unexpected places. The poet presents an image of teeming rivers flowing through the desert. God can make a way where there is no way. The psalmist echoes with an announcement that despite their present exile, God promises to reverse the fortunes of the Israelites and bring them home. In Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he suggests that all the knowledge of his former life counts as “rubbish” compared to the value he has discovered in Christ. The gospel reading from John raises a provocative question. Mary of Bethany lavishly anoints Jesus’s feet with costly perfume despite Judas’s objection that the money would be better spent feeding the poor. Do we act with hasty, self-righteous judgment like Judas, or like Mary, who offers an extravagant gift to God?

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“What goes through your mind as you sit in the sanctuary and look around?

As I sit in my pew and look up at the cross with the wonderful light illuminating it, I am reminded of why I am at Westminster on this particular day. The cross reminds me that Christ died for me and, in a sense, I am to do the same in my daily life. The brightness of the cross illustrates for me the brightness of living my life in the way of Christ.”