• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Flemington United Methodist Church logo

Come as you are

Header Right

 

Donate
  • About Us
    • About Flemington United Methodist Church
    • Our Staff
    • What We Believe
    • Our History
    • Weddings & Other Events
    • Donate
    • Contact Us
  • I’m New
    • What You Can Expect
    • Ask Pastor Chris
  • Worship With Us
    • Sunday Morning Experience
    • Sunday School
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteer
  • FUMC Blog
  • Calendar
  • Events
  • About Us
    • About Flemington United Methodist Church
    • Our Staff
    • What We Believe
    • Our History
    • Weddings & Other Events
    • Donate
    • Contact Us
  • I’m New
    • What You Can Expect
    • Ask Pastor Chris
  • Worship With Us
    • Sunday Morning Experience
    • Sunday School
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteer
  • FUMC Blog
  • Calendar
  • Events

Eggs Can’t Fly

Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:27 (NRSV)

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg.

We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. 

C.S. Lewis

Did it have to be like this?

Did Jesus need to die, and if so, why?

Holy Week is a time for each of us who seek to be Jesus’s disciples to place ourselves in these stories, whether or not we counted the cost before we began to follow. I can provide you with the best answers to the above questions I have encountered in my studies, prayers, and experiences, but it’s up to each of us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Search the scriptures, spend time in contemplation of the cross, and reflect on these tremendous mysteries this week.

I find the above excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity to be a helpful reminder of what Jesus himself taught while he was with us. He reminded those with him that unless the grain of wheat fell to the earth and died, there could be no bountiful multiplication. Unless the egg cracks and the bird is born, there can be no flight. Without Good Friday there can be no Easter, yet what a cost. What a price.

Over the next two days, I will share materials for home worship for both Maundy Thursday and Good Friday for you to travel deeper into the mystery of salvation, even at home. I pray you will make time to recommit yourself to the work of discipleship. Remember: God’s grace is free but it’s not cheap. Take up your cross with the intention to carry it until the end. 

Keep the Faith,
Pastor Ben
 
Announcements

Easter Morning Worship Schedule
We will once again have a sunrise prayer service on Easter morning in the Memorial Garden. Sunrise is officially at 6:38am, so we will seek to begin our service just a little before then at 6:30am.

The 10:30am service will likely be our best attended since last March, but rest assured we will have safe space and ventilation for everyone who desires to participate in person to come. I believe there may be an Egg Hunt for our youngest disciples, also, but weather or other considerations could stand in the way of that. Parents – please stay posted for another message soon. 

Continuing Coffee Hour Over Zoom
Laura Newton will host a weekly time of conversation and connection at 11:30 am after our worship service each week. Login available at 11:15am or conclusion of worship, whichever is later.

Here is a link to that time –

https://zoom.us/j/97755587686?pwd=NVdETlJhTmZncmpCdi85UUJOanJLUT09

If you have questions or need help, you can ask Pastor Ben or Laura. Don’t be shy, you are missed and a part of this church family, too!

New Upper Rooms are Available in the Church Office

The new Upper Room Daily Devotionals are also available now. If you’d like to pick yours up, Gretchen is in the church office from 9am-noon Tuesday – Friday each week. Please call ahead so she can set whatever you are picking up out for you.

Staying Connected
You will find every newsletter, worship service, devotional, and additional material posted to our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/FlemingtonUnitedMethodist/

Even if you don’t use Facebook, you can access everything we have there. If you do have a Facebook acount, “like” to follow our page and be notified when new things are posted or when videos are about to go live so you don’t miss anything.

Coffee Hour is a time of sharing after Sunday morning worship hosted by Laura Newton at approximately 11:30am. All are welcome!

If you have any difficulties accessing any of those links, please reply to this message or call the church office at (908)782-1070 and we will get you connected right away.

Previous Post: « Lost and Found
Next Post: It Gets Better (and Better) »

Primary Sidebar

Search

Recent posts

  • Bicentennial Church Tour: March 25th @ 1-3pm
  • Ash Wednesday Service
  • Christmas Eve Candle Light Service
  • Christmas at the Movies
  • Whitehouse Wind Symphony Concert

Categories

  • Events
  • Main Blog
  • Sunday Sermon
  • Uncategorized

Archives

  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • February 2018

Footer

Services: Sundays at 10:30am
Flemington United Methodist Church
116 Main Street, Flemington, NJ 08822
908.782.1070


Get in Touch

Get in Touch

Copyright © 2023 · Mai Lifestyle Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in