Looking Ahead to this Sunday, March 17th and Beyond

            For the next two Sundays I have a brief hiatus from preaching at Meriden United Methodist Church. 

This coming Sunday, March 17th, is “United Methodist Women’s Sunday” at Meriden UMC.  In planning their service the United Methodist Women group wanted to invite Rev. Eduardo Bousson, who is Campus Minister at Washburn University in Topeka.  Rev. Bousson was born and grew up in Puerto Rico.  He originally came to the Kansas City area in 1996 to attend Saint Paul School of Theology, where he completed his M.Div. degree.  After serving local churches of various sizes, he was appointed as Campus Minister at Washburn in 2009.  I am pleased to welcome Rev. Bousson to our pulpit this Sunday.  He is a colleague and good friend.  And, I look forward to hearing his proclamation, which is entitled:  “The Fragrance of a New Life,” based on John 12: 1-9.

The following Sunday, March 24th, is “Palm/Passion Sunday.”  I am really looking forward to the worship service that day, which will feature our Adult Choir’s Easter Cantata, which is entitled “Hallelujah!  Praise the Lamb”!

            The next Sunday, March 31st is Easter, and I will return to the pulpit with the beginning of a new sermon series.  The line-up of topics for the new series will be:

What Happens to Me When I Die?

The Resurrection, Life Eternal, and the End Times

Easter Sunday, March 31  -- Reconciling Empirical Science & Jesus’ Resurrection

April 7  -- What and Where Is the ‘Human Soul’?

April 14  --  ‘Freeze or Fry,’ The End of the Universe and the End Times

April 21 -- What We Can Already Know About Heaven and Life Eternal

April 28  --  God’s Earth versus a ‘Human Waiting Room’

May 5 – Will I See My Pet Animals in Heaven?

            Check this blog next week, when I will have a post, describing the context and providing more detail for this series on “What Happens to Me When I Die?”  The following week—the week of March 25th, which is Holy Week—I will provide a post that previews the first sermon on Easter Sunday.  Also, check out my website at  http://richardorandolph.com .

            Always feel free to post your comments on this blog.  If you live in the Meriden-area and do not have a regular church home, please consider attending Meriden United Methodist Church this Sunday.  Meriden UMC is located at the corner of Dawson and Main.  Our worship service starts on Sundays at 10 am.  Everyone is welcome and accepted because God loves us all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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