April 27, 2025

This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we start a new teaching series titled, The Implications of Easter. Easter, and the Resurrection were never meant to be a standalone event in the life of the church or in history. The Resurrection broke history, and changes everything in our lives of faith, in our community and in our world. And it calls us to respond.

April 20, 2025

This morning, at Lyons-Muir Church, we celebrate Easter Sunday by journeying to the tomb with Mary, Peter, and John. Even though we have heard the story before, today we “Look Again” at the garden and recognize that we are all called to live as Easter People in a Good Friday world, and that Jesus calls each of us by name.

April 18, 2025

This evening, at Lyons-Muir Church, we celebrate Good Friday together by walking through the story of Jesus as he moves from garden to courtyard, from the courtyard to his trial, from trial to the cross, and from the cross to the grave. We remember his sacrifice this Good Friday and recognize that God does his best work from the tomb.

April 13, 2025

This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we conclude our teaching series on grieving with God by studying the fifth and final chapter of Lamentations. After all the trauma, drama, and tragedy that surrounded Jeremiah, he concludes his writing by restoring his relationship with God. In the same way, when struck by grief in our lives, we are called to reconnect with God, who is with us in our grief.

April 6, 2025

This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, Grieving with God, continues as we turn to chapter 4 of Lamentations. Sometimes we feel as though we have lost our shine. Sometimes we question whether we have any value at all. But our value, our identity, is not determined by our present situation. Our identity and our value are ascribed by something else, by someone else.

March 30, 2025

This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we continue our teaching series, Grieving with God, by looking at the last section of Jeremiah’s third poem. In a raw and real cry out to God, we wrestle with what it looks like to seek God in the chaos in life. At the same time, we remember that the worst thing that can happen to us is never the last thing. That God works through the chaos.

March 23, 2025

This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, Grieving with God, continues with a look at silence. Sometimes, we reach out to God in prayer, we cry out in our grief and God is silent. But silence is not the same as absence. And in the times of God’s silence, we are invited into a time of remembrance, of all that God is and has done in our lives.

March 16, 2025

This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we continue our teaching series, Grieving with God, by turning to chapter two of the book of Lamentations. In this poem, Jeremiah paints a picture of a city crying out. Many of us recognize this kind of grief as places and spaces in our lives fall into chaos. But threaded through it all, we find simple structures that lead us on our healing path, one step at a time.