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Beginning today, sermon texts will be made available online at, http://redeemernewpaltz.org/sermons
We're pleased to announce a convenient new way to make your regular offerings. With our new electronic giving program, you can easily set up a recurring giving schedule or make one-time contributions. We encourage you to set up a schedule of recurring contributions. It’s convenient for you and provides much-needed consistency for our church. If you are currently giving on a weekly basis, you will no longer need to write out 52 checks a year or prepare 52 envelopes. Even when travel, illness or other circumstances prevent you from attending services, our church will continue to receive your contributions on an uninterrupted basis. Visit our Online Giving page for more information about this service.
Starting this month we're implementing a brand new newsletter that will incorporate a better look and feel, enable us to include a wider range of sources of news, articles, etc. Additionally, the service will enable you to more easily control your newsletter subscription, and will provide us with better management capabilities.
If you were signed up for the old e-newsletter, there's nothing you need to do - you'll receive the the new e-newsletter on September 5th. The sender's email address for the e-newsletter will be This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , so you may need to adjust your spam filters accordingly. For those of you who currently do not receive the e-newsletter, you'll soon be able to sign yourself up, or you can speak with Erich Markert to be manually added to the delivery list.
For the next month, or two, the old newsletter system will remain functional to ensure an orderly transition.
We're excited by this new offering and hope you are as well.
Stay tuned!
Oh what resurrection joy this season of Easter holds for us! The lilies that bedecked the altar may be planted in the ground, the candy long since eaten (and regretted!), but the resurrection song continues on and on and on! Christ has risen. He is risen indeed, alleluia! Put it on your I-Phone, program it on your programmable alarm clock, set your car to greet you with resurrection news. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed, alleluia.
It is so hard to hold fast to images of joy and new life, to really believe and live the resurrected life Christ claims for us. Just look at the Gospel text this week. In contrast to resurrection joy, the Gospel story this week presents us with images of fear, the disciples huddled in fear, namely.
You can’t exactly blame them, after all, this Jesus upon whom they had placed all their hopes, every apple they had went in this barrel, every text message was about him, and he was brutally killed in the worst possible way imaginable, on a cross, humiliated: their supposed savior. And now who knew, but it seemed like the crowd had a taste for blood, maybe they’d be next. You might be huddled, too, if these events had just happened in your last few days!
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Lent literally means “spring,” as in the season that follows on the heels of winter. Can I get an “alleluia” on the thought of spring arriving this year? The thought of Lent arriving does not usually bring quite the same joy as spring, but perhaps that is because it is somewhat misunderstood.
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