Pastor Joel Engman
Feb 28, 20222 min
Lent is a time to journey inwards and to evaluate the things that fill our time so as to make room for practices that bring us meaning and a more expansive life.
The scriptures for this Lenten season are filled with parables and promises of God’s abundant and expansive grace. Jesus as a mother hen, a prodigal son welcomed home, a fig tree nurtured with care and hope, precious oil poured out lovingly and freely, stones shouting out with praise —these sacred texts are brimming with a gospel of grace. We’ve done nothing to deserve or earn this grace, and yet, like water, it spills over. Full to the Brim is an invitation—into a radically different Lent, into a full life. It’s an invitation to be authentically who you are, to counter scarcity and injustice at every turn, to pour out even more grace wherever it is needed. It disrupts the scarcity mentality that capitalism, oppression, or hierarchy can plant inside of us. When we allow ourselves to be filled to the brim with God’s lavish love, that love spills over. It reaches beyond ourselves; like water, it rushes and flows, touching everything in its path.
To help us on this journey here are some Full to the Brim Resources:
Full to the Brim Devotional Booklet (Digital)
Full to the Brim Devotional Booklet (Printable)
Full to the Brim reflective Assessment Tool
Full to the Brim Lenten Poetry
Each Full to the Brim Sunday & Wednesday Gathering will have a helpful focus to aid in your journey
March 2 | 6:30 PM
Ash Wednesday
Ecclesiastes 3:1-14, 16-20 (INCL)
March 6 | 10:30 AM
1st Sunday of Lent
Luke 4:1-13
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Even in the Desert
Wednesday, March 9 | 7 PM (online only)
Leader: Pastor Kim Barnett
March 13, 2022
2nd Sunday of Lent
Daylight Savings begin
Luke 13:31-35
Psalm 27
Under Gods Wing
Wednesday, March 16 | 7 PM (online only)
Leaders: Terry Fairfax and Mary Culver-Flint
March 20, 2022
3rd Sunday of Lent
Luke 13:1-9
Isaiah 55:1-9
You are Worthy
Wednesday, March 23 | 7 PM (online only)
Leaders: Tom & Debbie Benjamin
March 27, 2022
4th Sunday of Lent
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Prodigal Grace
Wednesday, March 30 | 7 PM (online only)
Leader: Kevin Poe
April 3, 2022
5th Sunday of Lent
John 12:1-8
Isaiah 43:16-21
Brazen Acts of Beauty
Wednesday, April 6 | 7 PM (online only)
Leader: Darleen Slater
April 10, 2022
Palm Sunday
Luke 19:28-40
Even the Stones Cry Out
April 14, 2022
Wednesday, April 13 | 7 PM (online only)
Leader: Pastor Joel
Maundy Thursday | 6:30 PM
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Take Off Your Shoes
April 17, 2022
Easter
Luke 24:1-12
An Expansive Life