'Something Greater' is a Lenten Preaching Series led by Fr. Michael Delcambre in 2018.
This Lent you are invited into a Lenten preaching series entitled “Something Greater.” Jesus voiced his disappointment (Matthew 12:41) over people’s seeming indifference towards him unless he performed a sign for them. He reveals that people of the past had changed their lives over the message of men far less than Himself. Above Jonah and Solomon and any other messenger of God, in Jesus, there is “Something Greater” for all of us to encounter and give our life to.
WEEK 1
We will discuss the desert of Lent as a place to encounter God our Creator. We will explore awe filled reality of being a creature and dependent on a Creator.
WEEK 2
We will discuss a God who is for us and the only fitting response of gratitude. We will look at everything as gift from God and the possibility of ingratitude as a response and the tension this causes.
WEEK 3
We will discuss our thirst for more in life and the disappointing ache that a life of being self-sufficient creates with our unquenched thirsts. Superficial remedies cannot satisfy the heart.
WEEK 4
We will discuss resignation and what a life looks like of numbing thirsts and settling for “the best we can get.”
WEEK 5
We will address how we are all Bound with Christ. All we are left with is our own grasping.
WEEK 6
We will discuss Jesus who is the only one who can rescue us from our self-made aloneness. He offers a relationship that we can’t grasp at but can only surrender to.