You are invited to the Worship with Holy Communion Service on May 4 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Resplendent Quetzal from Costa Rica
Third Sunday of Easter
With Holy Communion
Sunday, May 4, 2025, 10 am
Red-eyed Leaf Frog
Children’s Time “More Costa Rica Please!” Pastor John
This will conclude the slide presentation of Costa Rica with butterflies & insects, bats & frogs, puma & honey bear, reptile animals such as iguanas, crocodiles, and river turtle. We’ll cap off with the holy grail of all birds in Costa Rica: Resplendent Quetzal.
Resplendent Quetzal & Sloth
Message “My Peace I give Unto You” Rev. John Song
Our world is in a time of deep change, and on the surface we can feel tossed about by the many challenging circumstances. Where do we find refuge when the world feels like too much? What anchors us when life feels uncertain. In a time when the world feels loud, fast, and filled with uncertainty, many of us are searching for a way to slow down, unwind, and find a deeper sense of peace. We are invited to find a deeper peace underneath all of that outer turmoil, which sustains and abides with us through turbulent time.
After his resurrection, Jesus entered a room full of frightened disciples who had been in hiding since his crucifixion and said, “Peace be with you.” (John 20:19) These words were not a greeting, like saying good morning or good afternoon. His words were a profound prayer and expression of abiding peace that this world cannot give nor take it away.
John 20:19-22
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
John 14:27, 16:33
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
“Still waters run deep.”
(The phrase entered English usage during the 16th century Renaissance, a time when
Latin proverbs were commonly translated and adopted into English literature.)
“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
~ Julian of Norwich, the 14th century Medieval Christian mystic
(from Revelations of Divine Love, 1393 A.D.)
