Lakeside Community Presbyterian Church

Palm Sunday begins a week of preparations for Easter and the celebration of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Every year, Easter is a reminder of the hope, faith and love in Christ. It reminds us that our failures are not final, and dying things can find new life.

I hope that you will join us for our upcoming Holy Week and Easter celebrations. Who in your life needs to be invited to one of these special services?

     Monday – Friday 12pm –

     Holy Week Communion Service

     Join us each day for a short service that               includes a meditation and communion as we         walk with Christ to the cross.

     Thursday – 6pm Maundy Thursday Service

    Join us for a service remembering the sacrifice      that Jesus made on the cross for our sins. The      “rites of nails” will take place as we physically      nail our sins to the cross.

A Note from Pastor Tim . . .

How is your journey through Lent going?

I suspect that for some of us, it has been a truly spiritual journey, walking, talking, and growing closer to Jesus. The spiritual disciplines that you have added (or things that you have subtracted/given up during Lent) are helping you form your inner life. You are walking closer with Jesus, growing spiritually more and more.

I also know that there are many of us, when Lent started a few weeks ago, had good intentions to renew our spiritual journey and walk closer with Jesus, but up to now, nothing has changed. Life got in the way with interruptions and distractions, or we just forgot, so your journey with Jeus is not different than before.

Let me encourage you at this mid-point of Lent to return to the journey. Don’t think that you have to try harder or work at being disciplined, start by asking the Holy Spirit to walk with you. Ask the Holy Spirit to renew a desire of walking closer with Jesus. That would be a good next step.

Our journeys with Christ will always have peaks and valleys. Times where we are walking close with Jesus and times when we are feeling distant but know that the Spirit never leaves us. Walk humbly with the Spirit and He will draw us closer to Jesus.

Have a great rest of the week and I will see you on Sunday.

Being Presbyterians means that we are connected with other Presbyterian churches in the Presbytery of San Diego. We are one of 34 different worshipping communities that stretches from Oceanside in North County San Diego down to the border with Mexico and from the Pacific Ocean all the way out to the desert and Imperial County. That is a large area of real estate, and each church is different in how they worship, how they study the Scriptures, and how they make disciples, but we all have the same desire to share the news about Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.

One of my obligations as a “Teaching Elder” in the Presbytery of San Diego is to share in the work of the Presbytery. My current role is on the Committee on Ministry which provides oversight to each of the churches and the pastors that are serving the various churches, and, in that role, I am going to be a part of the Presbytery’s Administrative Commission for the installation of the new pastor at Solana Beach Presbyterian Church.

So, this Sunday, I am going to be at Solana Beach attending their worship service and participating in the installation of Rev. Dr. Peter Dunn. Here at LCPC, Linda Sunkel will be preaching and sharing from God’s Word about God’s Kingdom from another one of Jesus’ Parables.

I will miss being with all of you this Sunday but know that good words will be shared as Linda preaches.

Have a great rest of the week.