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Beginning June 5th, we will read and discuss C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. We will meet together in the Fellowship Hall, at 9:45 AM. The reading schedule works out to approximately three chapters per week, making allowances for the Psalm and Hymn Sing the second Sunday of the month. We will keep to this schedule unless otherwise stated, so you can check back here for each week’s reading assignment.

June 5: Preface and chs. 1-3

June 19: chs. 4-6

June 26: chs. 7-9

July 3: chs. 10-12

July 17: chs. 13-15

July 24:chs. 16-18

July 31: chs. 19-21

August 7: chs. 22-24

August 21: chs. 25-27

August 28: chs. 28-31

We will be celebrating a Maundy Thursday Agape Feast at 6 PM, March 24th in the fellowship hall at the church. This is a worship service that takes place around tables and a meal, and culminates in the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

The Good Friday Service of Darkness will be held at 7 PM, March 25th, in the sanctuary at the church. This is a solemn service of confession, scripture reading, and singing, as we meditate upon the suffering and death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Please join us.

Due to the icy road conditions, the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Feast is canceled.

Christmas Eve • 4:00 p.m.

St. Mark Reformed Church invites you to join us in the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior with our annual Lessons and Carols service. This service is a special time weaving Bible readings with traditional Advent and Christmas music.

With this service we enter more fully, liturgically, and experientially into the story of the coming of the Son of God in human flesh to redeem us from the curse of sin and death. The readings and songs move from promise to fulfillment, from prophecy to realization, from type and shadow to reality.

The service is at our normal location of worship
1301 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN
(Brentwood First Presbyterian Church Building)

Please join us this Sunday for the beginning of our Sunday Morning Study: “The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor.” We are very happy to announce that Dr. Jonathan Rogers will speaking to us. He is the author of The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor. He will give two talks, the first at 9:45 AM, and the second at 2:00 PM following our morning worship service and fellowship meal. A book table featuring Dr. Rogers’s works will be available in the afternoon.

Please join us for our Maundy Thursday Agape Feast, 6 PM in the fellowship hall. This is a worship service that takes place around tables and a meal, and culminates in the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

On Sunday, March 23rd, two new officers were elected at St. Mark. Marc Hays was elected to the office of Ruling Elder, and Brian McLain to the office of Deacon. We are very thankful for the Lord’s provision for our congregation in this regard, and are looking forward to their ordination and installation on April 6th.

As you may have noticed, things are looking a bit different around here. We’re revamping the web site to a more up-to-date and mobile-friendly design.

Please be patient as we “connect the dots” with our content. Hopefully, you won’t find anything broken, but we’re still in process.

Cultivating the Christian Family

Speaker: Douglas Wilson

Families are a gift from God, but as a living gift from God, they are not static. Families are alive; they grow. This means that husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, need to understand the nature of the journey they have undertaken. Like a good story, families have a beginning, a middle, and an end. From the point of the wedding to the fiftieth anniversary, there are many different milestones, and it is part of God’s grace to us that we may learn how to behave throughout the course of our lives together. This conference is intended to provide a measure of help to that end.

Conference Schedule:

Friday, April 12
Session #1: “Healthy Marriage, Healthy Family”, 6:30 PM

Saturday, April 13
Session #2: “How Maturity Works”, 9:00-10 AM

Break: 10:00-10:30

Session #3:”Courtship Concerns”, 10:30-11:30 AM

Musical Event: Ron Block and Friends
and Contra Dancing, 3:00-5:30 PM

Sunday, April 14
Q&A During SS, 9:45 AM

Worship, 11 AM
Sermon: “A True Culture of Life”

Fellowship Meal

Conference registration is officially closed. Please call (615) 438-3109 to see if there is any available seating.

Conference Registration Form

Maundy Thursday Agape Feast – 5:45 PM in the fellowship hall.

Good Friday Service of Darkness – 6:30 PM in the sanctuary.

April 20, 21 and 22

Audio for Download LINK

Sessions 1-4

Please join us for an evening of fellowship and fun as we examine the deep theological significance of pancakes…by eating a lot of them!

When: February 17, 2015. 6:00-8:00 PM

Where: The Fellowship Hall at the church.

Shrove Tuesday is an 800+ year old tradition in English speaking churches. It marks the end of the festive season of Epiphany and the beginning of the more somber, solemn season of Lent. To wrap up Epiphany, people would have a pancake dinner together, using eggs and syrup, which they would be giving up for Lent. It was also a time to begin confessing (“shriving” in Old English) sin and focusing on repentance.

Other national cultures produced different pre-Lenten customs (e.g., French Mardi Gras), but as an English speaking church that traces its historical roots back to through the English Reformation, a Shrove Tuesday celebration makes perfect sense for St. Mark.