Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: “There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.” - M. F. K. Fisher
FAITH IN ACTION: Holy Communion, celebrating the Lord’s Supper, is one our church’s sacraments and a sacred ritual. This week look for a sacred ritual or two that has [...]

Food for Thought: “We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: (the Spirit) came on the day of Pentecost. (The Spirit) has never left the church.” — John Stott
Faith in Action: Be like the disciples at Pentecost, and spend time this week learning a new language. [...]

Food for Thought: Churches: Soulariums. — P.K. Thomajan
Faith in Action: Be the Body of Christ wherever you may be.

Food for Thought: “The challenge of learning to know, to be with, and care for the disabled is nothing less than learning to know, be with, and love God.  God’s face is in the face of the disabled; God’s body is the body of the disabled; God’s being is that of the disabled.” — Stanley [...]

Food for Thought:   “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” — Henry James
Faith in Action:  Believe that life is worth living!

“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing!” — William Law

Food for Thought: “The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.” — Carl Knudsen
Faith in Action: Celebrate life!

Food for Thought: “Once we no longer live beneath our mother’s heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.” – Louise Erdrich
Faith in Action:< Our call as people of faith — to protect the vulnerable and to be stewards [...]

Food for Thought: “Go to dark Gethsemane, all who feel the tempter’s power; your Redeemer’s conflict see, watch with Him one bitter hour; turn not from His griefs away, learn from Jesus Christ to pray.” - Words to a hymn by James Montgomery.
Faith in Action: Attend Holy Week worship services or read and meditate on [...]

This week’s Food for Thought was provided by Suellen Barnett.
Food for Thought - “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” — “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848, Seneca Falls, NY, Women’s Rights Commission.  
Faith in Action - Support Justice and equality for all people.