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First Sunday in Lent
March 9, 2025
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Crowned with Thorns
(private collection, c. 1510), oil on panel. Dimensions: 28 × 21 cm.
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Free 40-day Lent Devotional emailed to you daily, during this upcoming season of Lent courtesy of Gospel In Life. Each day of the Lenten season, you’ll receive an e-devotional from our book — A Journey Through Lent. We hope this will help you prepare your heart for Easter. We hope our Lent devotionals will encourage you as you examine your heart and prepare to celebrate the incredible joy and hope we have in Christ’s resurrection.
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THURS. FELLOWSHIP HALL
March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 3, 10
6:00pm Dinner
6:30-7:30pm Program
TWISTING THE TRUTH
Andy Stanley
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Andy Stanley helps us understand how truth can get twisted and distorted, and how that impacts your life. Throughout the study, Stanley exposes four destructive and all-too-prevalent lies about authority, pain, sex, and sin. They're deceptions powerful enough to ruin our relationships, our lives, even our eternities---but only if we let them. | |
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MARCH 17 - APRIL 14
MONDAY'S, 7:00 - 8:00pm
via Microsoft Teams (like Zoom)
"The Surpassing Value of Knowing Christ:
A Study of Philippians"
by Beth & Melissa Moore
There will be a video followed by discussion.
Intended for men and women, when you register, you will get a calendar invitation to your email, and each week you will just click on the link to be admitted to the session.
There will be weekly “homework” study assignments to enhance your study experience, and there is a workbook that accompanies the study, which costs $20 if purchased from Living Proof Ministries (click to link to their website) or call (888)700-1999).
If you are interested in participating, please contact Debbie Shaffer at debshaffer_tx@yahoo.com and provide your email address to be registered and receive the Microsoft Teams link
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MORSEL FOR MEDITATION
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God’s most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
-Charles Stanley
Remember that it's not only the desire for wealth and position that debases and subjugates us, but also the desire for peace, leisure, travel, and learning. It doesn't matter what the external thing is, the value we place on it subjugates us to another... where our heart is set, there our impediment lies.
-Epictetus, Discourses, 4.4.1-2; 15
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SUNDAY WORSHIP
10:30 a.m. Live Stream
Sunday Services
on Youtube and Facebook
Repeat of Sunday services can be seen on GEUS Channel 34
Wednesdays
8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
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Sunday's
9:00am - 9:15am intercessory prayer for our parish, our priest, our city, and the diocese. All are welcome
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Adult Catechesis
9:30am - 10:15am
Parish Hall
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Weekday Worship
& Bible Study
MONDAY - FRIDAY
7:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer 1
located in the Side Chapel in the south transept of the church.
WEDNESDAYS
10:00 a.m.
Children's Chapel
10:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer 2
in the Church
7:00 p.m.
Bible Study Resumes
After Easter
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EVENTS
March 9 - Bishop Sumner's Visitation
March 15
8:00am - St Joseph's Guild
9:00am - Daughter's of the King
March 18 - 7:00pm Vestry Meeting
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LENTEN PROGRAMS
Thursdays
March 6, 13, 20, 27;
April 3, 10
6:00pm - 6:30pm Dinner - Fellowship Hall
6:30pm - 7:30pm Program
"Twisting the Truth" Andy Stanley
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Mondays - March 17, 24, 31; April 7, 14
7:00pm - 8:00pm via Microsoft Teams
"The Surpassing Value of Knowing Christ: A Study of Philippians"
Beth & Melissa Moore
6:00pm Friday's March 7 - April 18
Stations of the Cross - outside or
in Sanctuary during inclement weather
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Prayers For the Church
The Daughters of the King - DOK are dedicated to supporting the prayer needs of St Paul's. They are available in the Side Chapel in the south transept of the church every Sunday after the 10:30 a.m. worship service for private prayer.
You can also submit intentions in the prayer box in the narthex, or to add names to the prayer list, please contact the church office.
(Names will remain on prayer list for one month unless renewed)
Please pray for: Beth Lachnitt, Rita Woods, Rudolph Jennings
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AROUND THE DIOCESE
(Click scroll down to read more about Coadjutor Candidates and where and where to meet them)
BISHOP'S BLOG - Sermon St. James, Texarkana
Diary of a Theologian - Style, by Canon Victor Austin
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How You Can Help Refugee Families
Our goal is simple: help refugee families move from striving to thriving in as little time as possible. Although this journey for most takes 5 -7 years, today’s actions against refugees and immigrants no longer provides that same window of time to succeed. So, the ministry’s mission is adapting to a new, more urgent approach while staying committed to a Christ-centered, compassionate philosophy in which each person, created in the image of God, is deserving of human dignity.
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APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR EPISCOPAL FOUNDATION OF DALLAS GRANTS
The grant application for the Episcopal Foundation of Dallas opened on February 1, 2025 and can be accessed online. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 31, 2025. For questions, contact Pam Fellows Jamieson at exec@episcopalfoundationdallas.org
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