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Take a break from all the work this week, and bring your lunch to the booths near Sbarro for a relaxed, informal conversation about the readings for this coming Sunday! Everyone is welcome – no experience is required! And if you can’t make it, you can still take a look at the readings below and consider the questions there. Feel …
What did you do after you were baptized? Many of you are probably like me – since I was baptized as an infant (6 weeks old), I have no memory of the day (it was my sister’s 4th birthday), but I surely drank a bottle or two, slept, gurgled at grandparents, and cried a bit. The real business of living …
Join the conversation! 12:15 pm -1:15 pm in the booths near Sbarro! Or if you can’t make it, just check out the lessons below and post or email your thoughts and questions! lutheran@psu.edu Luke 13:31-35 31 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He …
Happy Shrove Tuesday! Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Carnival – Don’t they all mean the same thing, really: take this one last chance to have fun and consume up all the things you’re gonna have to do without during the long, miserable season of Lent. Really? Is that what Lent is? Not at all. Somehow we’ve gotten it backwards. Lent is …
You have several opportunities to gather for worship at the start of your Lenten journey. Choose the time and location that fits your schedule: – 12:15 pm – Eisenhower Chapel at Pasquerilla Spiritual Center Brief service of readings, reflection and imposition of ashes (Offered to the entire campus community by Lutheran Student Community and Westminster Presbyterian Fellowship) – 12:15 pm …
Join the conversation at the HUB today 12:15 – 1:15 pm near Sbarro! Call or text Alicia (814-360-0601 if you need help finding the group! Luke 4:1-13 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at …
Lenten Discussion Thursdays! Resuming after Spring Break – Thursday, March 14th. “Making Sense of the Cross” will help us in a Lenten Bible study/discussion from 8 pm – 9 pm at Pasqeurilla Spiritual Center. In Lent, the cross often becomes a particular focus, but what does it mean to us? Love? Sacrifice? Suffering? Joy? We’ll be using resources by David …
Bible Study on Monday, 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm! We’ll gather in the HUB near Sbarros for an informal exploration of the readings for this coming Sunday – bring your lunch and join the conversation! If you need help finding us (check the booths), call or text Alicia at 814.360.0601. This week’s readings are below – even if you aren’t free for …
Enjoy the day off of classes on Monday! On January 21st we honor Martin Luther King Jr. and his work for racial equality, justice, and peace. We sometimes forget that Dr. King was a Christian minister and that the roots of his work and thought are the teachings of Jesus – below are some passages from his writings and speaches that serve as …
Advent is my favorite season of the church year. I love the hope, the preparation and the expectation. I find it reassuring to acknowledge that we are surrounded by darkness and struggle, and still, we focus on God’s promises that light will come and will not be defeated. I rejoice in the realization that the light of God’s love and …
