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Greetings in Christ,

          I hope the winter months have been good to you. Tucson has such wonderful winters—we are so blessed. The season of Lent is well upon us and I am pleased, as I hope you are, with our series for midweek worship, “Life Together.” The series strives to address popular assumptions of postmodernism.  Postmodernism is an elastic term, not easily defined, but it meets us almost daily in our lives. Its subtle influences are found in all age groups, not just young people. “No longer is there one morality or myth or ritual or dance or dream or philosophy or concept of self or god or culture or style of art that predominates. The explosion of new communications technologies and the continuing fragmentation of cultures into thousands of little cultures has forced us to view our world as simultaneously expanding and shrinking.” (Jim Powell, Postmodernism for Beginners [New York: For Beginners/Random House, 2007]

             The series asks some pretty important and relevant questions for us who gather together in a Christian community. They urge us to look at our world from a Christian perspective, a perspective that more and more seems to be drifting away from society and its outlook on life. So how are we supposed to interact with a culture that appears to be growing more hostile toward Christianity? The culture today views the church as judgmental, hypocritical, old-fashioned, and out of touch. These sermons will help us explore certain presuppositions found in the post modern culture and respond to them with God’s Word. We will explore how these assumptions relate to Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death on the cross for us. Let’s take these sermons seriously as we approach Holy Week at the end of March and as we prepare to celebrate His victory over death in His resurrection from the grave on April 4th.

                          Pastor Deombeleg