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Second Sunday in Lent
With Holy Communion
Sunday, March 1, 2026, 10 am
Children’s Time “What Is Confirmation?” Pastor John
Message “The Fifth Season: Age Like a Meteor” Rev. John Song
The message is on aging and entering the “Fifth Season” of our lives. The metaphor of entering into late autumn and winter season of life is associated with losing all our leaves and we wither. It’s dark and barren, and then we die before we get to have another spring.
I would like to offer you another metaphor. And that is a meteor. So we all know that meteors, they become brighter and brighter till there’s nothing left but light. And what struck me is that this is a wonderful metaphor for the journey of a spirit in a body on earth through a lifetime. Over a lifetime, while our outer casing flakes off, we get brighter and brighter. Very few meteors ever reached the earth because most of them flake off as they enter the atmosphere through frictions. And they become brighter and brighter till there’s nothing left but light. Everything turns remarkably brilliant.
Luke 5:4
“When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,
‘Cast your net out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.’”
John 14:27
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
