"Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is." --Darren Hardy

Welcome again and thanks for listening! This sermon is a continuation of the Seven Last Words of Jesus Series that Pastor Charley is preaching at FFC for the first time. Claire Chiboub helped out by reading scripture.

Remember, if you'd like to hear even more from Pastor Charley you can join him and Jonathan Malone on Wednesdays for Kitchen Table Spirituality, which you can find right here. Last week they focused on generosity.

Our Call to Worship for this service is here:

One: Lent began in the wilderness; it concludes in Jerusalem.

All: We now come near to the end of one story. Another will soon
begin.
One: We have followed Jesus this far;
today we remember how he faced betrayal, falseness,
rejection, and torment.

All: And we witness, once more, that he taught and walked in love
through every step of the journey.

Here is a link to the W.S.Merwin poem "Completion." You can see why it's so hard to read, or was for me: the whole poem is one sentence! Where do you take a breath? Where did I?

"I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that." --Maya Angelou