You are invited to the Second Sunday in Lent Worship on March 16 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
You can worship live on ZOOM by clicking the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9658816441 Meeting ID: 965 881 6441
You can also watch Sunday services at your convenience by going to our website “watsonville1stumc.org” and click YouTube or Facebook. Each Sunday worship will be uploaded on Sunday afternoon for your viewing.
Second Sunday in Lent
Sunday, March 16, 2025, 10 am
Today is Sunday School with Joan!
[First, children will be in worship. Following the Special Music,
the teacher, Joan Culbertson, will lead our children to the Nursery Room.]
Choir Anthem: The Christ of the Cross
Words and Music by Frank C. Huston
Message Numinous Mystical Fire: Rev. John Song
Part 2) “Personal Encounter”
During the 40 days of Lent, I will be devoting my sermon series on “Numinous Mystical Fire.” As humans, we have had various iterations of the experience of numinous. For Part 2 sermon, I will share my personal encounter with the Numinous Mystical Fire that set the trajectory of my life.
Psalm 42: 1-3
As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and behold the face of God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
Vacillation
by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.
