Category: SERMONS, WORSHIP, MEDITATIONS

  • Lenten Devotionals

    New Dismantling Racism devotional Bishop Karen Oliveto of the Mountain Sky Annual Conference is leading today’s Lenten devotional. This series offers an opportunity to confess and fast from the sins of racism, discrimination, oppression and exclusion, and feast on the beauty and blessing of the diversity of God’s Church. Watch and share Recorded prayer service inspired…

  • March 7 Worship welcome

    In our reading from the Gospel, we are told that Jesus drove out those who were buying and selling and changing money in the temple’s court. The Jewish leaders who had authorized this business were making enormous profits. They were so much after the money that they had become spiritually depraved and were missing the…

  • Link to March 3 Lenten Taize service

    You are invited into a simple, meditative prayer service with Taizé chants as part of your Lenten journey. The March 3 service is now available; new services will be added each Wednesday through March 31, 2021. Visit www.neumc.org/taize-lent to view the services and see a guide for participating

  • Feb. 28 Pastor’s welcome

    Lent is a time of spiritual journeying and preparation for the seasons of Easter and Pentecost. It is a time of self- examination, self- denial, penitence and forgiveness in preparation for the renewal of the Easter Season. It is the time when we redouble our efforts, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to draw closer to God in Christ Jesus. Here…

  • Lenten weekly devotional on Racism and exclusion

    Bishop LaTrelle Easterling of the Baltimore‑Washington Conference is leading us in today’s Lenten devotional. This series offers an opportunity to confess and fast from the sins of racism, discrimination, oppression and exclusion, and feast on the beauty and blessing of the diversity of God’s Church. Watch now

  • Weekly Taize Service for Lent

    You are invited into a simple, meditative prayer service with Taizé chants as part of your Lenten journey. The first of these pre-recorded services is now available; new services will be added each Wednesday through March 31, 2021. The services will be 30-35 minutes. Author, educator and spiritual director Kate Young Wilder will be our host. The services…

  • The First Sunday in Lent 2/21/21

    Welcome to the first Sunday of the Lenten Season, 2021. Lent is a forty – day potential season of spiritual preparation for the seasons of Easter and Pentecost. It is a time of reflection, confession and self – examination. It is also the time when we redouble our human efforts, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to draw closer to God in Christ Jesus. Here at Chilmark Community…

  • Feb. 14,2021 Transfiguration Sunday

    Today is the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (Lent begins on Ash Wednesday) and we are reflecting on the Transfiguration of Jesus. Scholars down through the ages have discussed extensively the Transfiguration event. Nearly  everyone begins by admitting that they are not sure of exactly what took place. Please note that only the synoptic Gospels – Mark 9:2-9, Luke 9:28 – 36 and Matthew 17:1-8 and the second letter of…

  • Welcome February 7, 2020

    February 7, 2021 Fifth Sunday after Epiphany WORSHIP SERVICE OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING Rev. Ernest Belisle, Pastor Thought for the week God calls Christians, not to be effective and happy, not to be successful and powerful, and not to be wealthy and influential; God calls us only to be faithful, the others are a plus. Please re read each day this inventory.…