February 15, 2026 – Transfiguration Sunday
Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9
Rev. Dr. Eric Barreto, “Not Figuring out (A Sermon)”
Peter preached greater than he was able to consider, he mentioned greater than he understood. Generally that’s how the Spirit strikes amongst us.
Generally God will train us phrases to say to the grieving. Not realizing what we’re saying.
Generally God will train us to sing a tune in regards to the breadth and depth of God’s grace we’ll by no means totally perceive. Not realizing what we’re saying.
Generally God will train us to talk phrases of forgiveness and restore. Not realizing what we’re saying.
Generally God will train us tips on how to love each other, even to like our enemies. Not realizing what we’re saying.
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February 18, 2026 – Ash Wednesday
Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Rev. Natalia Terfa, “Lent is just not a holiness contest”
Jesus takes the issues that folks normally do as a way to repent, to show round, to show again to God, and says – why? Why are you doing these? For others? For your self? For God?
Ideas on Lent
Dr. Michael J. Chan, “An Analgesic Religion: Reflections on Psalm 77”
If all our religion can do is numb ache, then it’s a religion value rejecting. Lent is there to remind us of what a sturdy, reliable religion ought to feel and look like.
Laura Jean Truman, “Lent: Being Human With Our Human God”
The world isn’t the way in which it needs to be, and we aren’t the way in which we want we have been, both. There are aches of sin and demise within the middle of the world that we don’t know tips on how to heal. The impulse is to make use of Lent to repair these aches. However Lent isn’t time to observe saying repeatedly “if solely we could possibly be higher.” It’s time to observe being current to the methods we aren’t higher: to observe being current to our humanity.
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February 22, 2026 – First Sunday in Lent
Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11
Dr. Deanna A. Thompson, “Lent Devotions: Adapting to the Wilderness”
The satan’s temptation of Jesus begins with the phrases, “If you’re the Son of God . . .” (4.3) making an attempt to impress Jesus to reside into his id via self-serving energy and management. However Jesus refuses, demonstrating his id as Son of God is extra about obedience and constancy to God than it’s to the use (and abuse) of energy.
