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"Come To Me" Lent 2026
Contributed by Shawn Vollmerhausen on Mar 13, 2026 (message contributor)
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1. Ash Wednesday "marked, But Not For Show"
Contributed on Mar 13, 2026
Explores the tension between the visible mark of ashes and Jesus’ call to a hidden, sincere faith. The sermon emphasizes the God who ‘sees in secret,’ the difference between outward signs and inward renewal, and the invitation Lent offers to return to God with honesty.
Tonight we gather at the doorway of Lent, a season that invites us to slow down, to look inward, and to return to God with honesty. Ash Wednesday is unlike any other night in the Christian year. It is quiet, reflective, and strangely beautiful. We come forward to receive ashes on our foreheads, a ...read more
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2. "when We’re Pulled Away” Lent 1st Sunday
Contributed on Mar 13, 2026
This sermon explores the wilderness temptations of Jesus in Matthew 4 alongside the invitation of Isaiah 55, showing how both passages reveal a God who meets us in our wandering and calls us to return with trust rather than shame.
There’s something about the season of Lent that feels like stepping into a quieter room. The lights dim a little. The noise settles. The pace slows. And suddenly, we can hear things we usually drown out. We can feel things we usually outrun. We can notice things we usually ignore. Lent is not a ...read more
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3. Trusting The One Who Knows The Way - Lent 2nd Sunday
Contributed on Mar 16, 2026
This sermon invites us to trust God when the way forward is unclear. Through the stories of Nicodemus, Abraham, and Corrie ten Boom, we explore how God meets us in our questions and gives us what we need at the right time.
Nicodemus came at night. That detail alone tells us so much. He was a man of status, a teacher of Israel, someone who had spent his entire life studying Scripture, teaching others, and trying to live faithfully. He was respected, educated, and spiritually serious. But something about Jesus ...read more
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4. "where God Meets Our Thirst" - Lent 3rd Sunday
Contributed on Mar 16, 2026
This week’s message will create a space for people to name their own thirst…whether for peace, purpose, forgiveness, or renewal, and hear the invitation to come to the well that never runs dry.
There is a kind of thirst that goes deeper than the body. We all know what it feels like to be physically thirsty, to feel that dryness in the mouth, that ache in the throat, that longing for a drink of cold water. But there is another kind of thirst that lives in the soul. It is quieter, harder ...read more
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5. When Hope Feels Lost - Lent Week 5
Contributed on Mar 20, 2026
This sermon explores how God meets us in the places where hope feels lost, using Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones and the raising of Lazarus to show how God breathes life into what seems dead and calls us out of the tombs we settle into.
Come to Me: When Hope Feels Lost Ezekiel 37:1–6, 11–14 ~ John 11:17–27, 32–44 There are seasons in life when hope feels like it has slipped through our fingers. We don’t plan for those seasons. They arrive quietly, or suddenly, or slowly over time, and before we realize it, we’re standing in a ...read more
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6. Eyes Opened, Heart Awakened - Lent Week 4
Contributed on Mar 20, 2026
This sermon explores John 9 as a story of awakening, showing how God brings us from partial sight to deeper clarity in stages. It weaves Paul’s call to ‘walk as children of light’ with the man born blind, inviting congregations to trust the gentle light God gives for the next faithful step.
There are moments in life when we realize we have been seeing things only partially. Moments when something shifts, whether through an insight, a conversation, a season of struggle, or a surprising grace, and suddenly what once felt confusing or blurry begins to take shape. It is not that ...read more
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7. The King Who Kneels - Palm Sunday
Contributed on Mar 26, 2026
A Palm Sunday message exploring Jesus’ unexpected kingship, contrasting the crowd’s expectations with the humility of Christ in Matthew 21 and Philippians 2. It invites listeners to move from praise to welcome to true surrender as we follow the King who kneels and calls us to come to Him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palm Sunday always carries a certain energy with it. Even before the first hymn begins or the first palm is lifted, there’s a sense that something is shifting, something is beginning, something is stirring in the air. It’s the start of Holy Week, and whether we’ve walked this road ...read more