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May 10: First Day of School
Soon Coronado begins a new phase of our spiritual journey. We know who your new pastor will be and look ahead to the process of saying goodbye and hello SCRIPTURE: I Samuel 1: 19-28; 2:19-21
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May 3: Caring For Creation
Let us rediscover the sacredness of creation, and our role as stewards of the environment. If we do not care for this world, where will we live? How will we answer to God? SCRIPTURE: Genesis 2:4b-9
The Last Judgment and the Last Minute Reprieve
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 25: 31-46; Romans 7: 15-25
Packing The Pine Cones
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 12:1 Today Coronado learns who its new pastor will be. What are some of the challenges for that pastor?
Entrusted To Us
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 25: 14-30 The history of CCUMC spans an incredible amount of change in community and culture. The charter members could not have conceived what life would be like in and around this church a century later. How can we help our spiritual descendents?
To Experience God, You First Have To Die
A grain of wheat cannot give rise to new plants unless it is buried. We cannot experience new life until something in us dies.
Wrestling with the Will of God
“Not What I Want, But What You Want” Jesus’ prayer in the garden before his arrest is the one true prayer, but what does it mean? We too easily say that a tragedy or a child’s death is “the will of God”, that God had a secret purpose, that God did something bad in order […]
Wrestling with Mortality: Jesus’ Last Will and Testament
Jesus, looking at his death unafraid, provided for his mother and friends. He left to us his values and an unfinished task. What is our attitude as we deal with our mortality? What is your legacy? SCRIPTURE: John 14:27
Wrestling with Caesar
American Christians are challenged to separate their religious faith from their patriotic ferver. To combine religion and state is to use God for our purposes, without seeing that God is far greater than any nation’s purposes.
Wrestling with Scripture: Use & Misuse of the Bible
The Bible is a great tool but we dull its edge by literalism, prooftexting, ignorance, and grasping for a rule book. We should worship the God behind the Bible. SCRIPTURE: John 21:24; Acts 1: 1-2