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During the lenten season, we are using the book Pauses For Lent by Trevor Hudson as a guide.  TEXT John 12:12-26   BENEDICTION Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done,  on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory. Amen   TAKEAWAYS What am I doing to fit in? We'll am I doing to set myself apart?

During the lenten season, we are using the book Pauses For Lent by Trevor Hudson as a guide.  TEXT John 8:2-11 BENEDICTION The True Love by David Whyte There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you this way.   I am thinking of faith now and the testaments of loneliness and what we feel we are worthy of in this world.   Years ago in the Hebrides I remember an old man who walked every morning on the grey stones to the shore of baying seals,   who would press his hat to his chest in the blustering salt wind and say his prayer to the turbulent Jesus hidden in the water,   and I think of the story of the storm and everyone waking and seeing the distant, yet familiar figure, far across the water calling to them,   and how we are all waiting for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except, it will not come so grand

During the lenten season, we are using the book Pauses For Lent by Trevor Hudson as a guide.  TEXT Genesis 4:1-2 TAKEAWAYS When I feel justified in my disappointment, I need to practice gratitude. When I feel jealous, I need to practice generosity. When I am down or out and about to do something to deal with it, I need to ask this question: Am I intentionally doing harm to part of God's creation? BENEDICTION Be still and know that I am God Be still and know that I am Be still and know Be still Be

During the lenten season, we are using the book Pauses For Lent by Trevor Hudson as a guide.  TEXT Luke 14:16-22 TAKEAWAYS Sometime soon, talk to someone holding a sign, tell each other your names and your stories (not just his or her story) If being poor is lacking something, we're all poor Visit Serve 6.8 and learn some about what they do BENEDICTION Be still and know that I am God Be still and know that I am Be still and know Be still Be

During the lenten season, we are using the book Pauses For Lent by Trevor Hudson as a guide.    TEXT John 4:13-14     BENEDICTION Be still and know that I am God Be still and know that I am Be still and know Be still Be

TEXT James 3:3-10 2 Kings 2:23-25 Luke 6:27-28  TAKEAWAYS Use some words to tell someone you are sorry for some words you said Use some words to bless someone you've not spoken to in some time Learn a new joke and tell it to many people BENEDICTION Be still and know that I am God Be still and know that I am Be still and know Be still Be

TEXT Ephesians 5:1-20  TAKEAWAYS To put on the new self, we might need to put ourselves in some new places Read the instructions, and talk to the old timers Think about this: where have I gotten hard hearted?     BENEDICTION   Be still and know that I am God Be still and know that I am Be still and know Be still Be Amen

TEXT Ephesians 4:7-32   TAKEAWAYS To put on the new self, we might need to put ourselves in some new places Read the instructions, and talk to the old timers Think about this: where have I gotten hard hearted?     BENEDICTION May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you: wherever he may send you; may he guide you through the wilderness: protect you through the storm; may he bring you home rejoicing: at the wonders he has shown you; may he bring you home rejoicing: once again into our doors. Amen.

TEXT Ephesians 4:1-6 Acts 15:36-40   TAKEAWAYS Is there a relationship where I currently need to bring repair? How can I help nurture and strengthen unity in our life together as church? Temperamentally, am I a 'jazz player' in life? Who listens well to the rhythm of your heart as well as your words?     BENEDICTION May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you: wherever he may send you; may he guide you through the wilderness: protect you through the storm; may he bring you home rejoicing: at the wonders he has shown you; may he bring you home rejoicing: once again into our doors. Amen.  

When we arrive at a month with a 5th Sunday, we take it as an opportunity to spend the morning moving through three liturgical movements. Each movement looks like this: Scripture/teaching Story Song Prayer We also follow a theme during each Movement Sunday. In January 2017, the theme was Leaving, with the following movements: Leaving Leaving Again Leaving Peace Here is the entirety of the Liturgy of Leaving for the morning: Song of Gathering - "Come Ye Sinners" Welcome & Explanation Song of Invitation - "The Fire and the Flood" Movement I: Leaving Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9 Story: The Relatives Came pt. 1 Song: "Oceans" Prayer: "A hard, deep call to obedience" by Walter Brueggemann Movement II: Leaving Again Scripture: Genesis 13:5-11 Story: Excerpt from Listening To Your Life by Parker Palmer Song: "Jesus, We Love You" Prayer: A poem by Wendell Berry Movement III: Leaving Peace Scripture: John 14:25-31 Story: The Relatives Came pt. 2 Song: "Oh God" Prayer: The Prayer Of St. Francis Communion

TEXT Romans 15:1-13 MSG TAKEAWAYS Let's tell someone congratulations this week, even if they got what we wanted. Let's reach out to someone this week that is hurting and maybe we've been distancing ourselves from them. Let's find someone new at work or church or in the neighborhood and give them a treat and tell them we're glad they are here.  Let's circle back around with someone with whom we didn't do goodbye very well and try again.

TEXT Philippians 3:1-11

TEXT Isaiah 11:1-9 Colossians 3  

TEXT Psalm 8   TAKEAWAYS Give people a chance.   BENEDICTION Occupy Our Calendars by Walter Brueggemann Our times are in your hands: But we count our times for us; we count our days and fill them with us; we count our weeks and fill them with our busyness; we count our years and fill them with our fears. And then caught up short with your claim, Our times are in your hands! Take our times, times of love and times of weariness, Take them all, bless them and break them, give them to us again, slow paced and eager, fixed in your readiness for neighbor. Occupy our calendars, Flood us with itsy-bitsy, daily kairoi, in the name of your fleshed kairos.     Amen  

Merry Christmas! In an effort to stay at home with our dear ones, we gathered one morning in the living room of Katrina Tomlin - TOT children's director - and recorded a time of song, prayer, joy, beauty, story, and Christmas. Enjoy the audio podcast, or watch the video here! For the Advent season, we will be using the book Light Upon Light by Sarah Arthur as a guide. Each component of the service will be taken from that book.   Opening Prayer Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span! Summer in winter, day in night! Heaven in earth, and God in man! Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth.   Text Isaiah 58:1-12   Literary Selection Mary at the Nativity by Tania Runyan The angel said there would be no end to his kingdom. So for three hundred days I carried rivers and cedars and mountains. Stars spilled in my belly when he turned. Now I can’t stop touching his hands, the pink pebbles of his knuckles, the soft wrinkle of flesh between his forefin

For the Advent season, we will be using the book Light Upon Light by Sarah Arthur as a guide. Each component of the service will be taken from that book.   Opening Prayer:   O Thou, whose glorious, yet contracted light, Wrapped in a night’s mantle, stole into a manger; Since my dark soul and brutish is thy right, To Man of all beasts be not Thou a stranger…   Text: Luke 2:22-35   Literary Selection: Nativity by Li-Young Lee In the dark, a child might ask, What is the world? just to hear his sister promise, An unfinished wing of heaven, just to hear his brother say, A house inside a house, but most of all to hear his mother answer, One more song, then you go to sleep.   How could anyone in that bed guess the question finds its beginning in the answer long growing inside the one who asked, that restless boy the night's darling?   Later, a man lying awake, he might ask it again, just to hear the silence charge him, This night arching over your sleepless wondering.   this night, the near ground every reaching-out

For the Advent season, we will be using the book Light Upon Light by Sarah Arthur as a guide. Each component of the service will be taken from that book.   Opening Prayer: Lead, Kindly Light, amid the circling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark and I am far from home— Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, — one step enough for me.   Amen.   Text: Psalm 137 Luke 2:1-7    Literary Selection: The House Of Christmas by GK Chesterton  There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the sun, And they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. Here we have battle and blazing eyes, And chance and honour and high surprise, But our homes are under miraculous skies Where the yule tale was begun

For the Advent season, we will be using the book Light Upon Light by Sarah Arthur as a guide. Each component of the service will be taken from that book.   Opening Prayer: Deliver us for Thy descent Into the Virgin, whose womb was a place Of middle kind; and Thou being sent To ungracious us, stayed’st at her full of grace….   Text: Luke 1:26-38   Literary Selection: Annunciation by Elizabeth B. Rooney   There was Is Has been And will be An everywhere Fixed And transfixed Wherin One single Simple Open soul Received The potency Of the creative whole.   Benediction: …And through Thy poor birth, where first Thou Glorified’st poverty, And yet soon after riches didst allow, By accepting King’s gifts in the Epiphany, Deliver ,and make us, to both ways free. Amen.

For the Advent season, we will be using the book Light Upon Light by Sarah Arthur as a guide. Each component of the service will be taken from that book.   Opening Prayer: Of the Father’s love begotten, Ere the worlds began to be, His is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending He, Of the things that are, That have been, And the future years shall see, Evermore and evermore!            Text: John 1:1-18    Literary Selection: Conversion by Marci Johnson How can word become flesh? Belly. Bone.   Tongue—the feel in the mouth a word rolling around. Word,   not a kiss not the thing itself—a name. The arch of a foot. Your face   in my hands, just a name. Blue sky lolling Beyond the window   frame—eyes open. Just a way of looking. Begin with a change.   Benediction: Christ, to Thee with God the Father, And, O Holy Ghost, to Thee, Hymn and chant with high thanksgiving, And unwearied praises be: Honor, glory, and dominion, And eternal victory, Evermore and evermore!