From today’s service: Let us sacrifice to God our own broken spirits; LORD, cleanse and heal our broken, hungry hearts. Make us artisans of justice, crafters of mercy, makers of peace. Build your kingdom in us! Make us builders of your kingdom come. True worship is this: justice-seeking, providing for, protecting forgotten, lonely people; impoverished …
I found this wonderful prayer on the website of our brothers and sisters in the United Methodist Church. It’s great to use with children in a family (or church) setting because it spells out what we believe in everyday language that is easy to say and easy to understand. There are many mysteries when it …
It was wonderful to worship together with organ, piano, and acoustic guitar! We also explored the Tower of Babel story by building and destroying our own tower of self-centeredness, then rebuilding it on the altar, piece by piece, into a representation not of our own pride or desires, but of the Body of Christ! As …
We played this song as we came forward to the cross on Ash Wednesday. Each week during Lent, everyone will be invited to come forward to visualize the act of laying their burdens down by pinning a symbolic drop of blood to our rough-hewn cross. God takes our ashes and dust and makes beautiful things! …
I worked at a record store the summer before I left for college. Actually, I worked at Best Buy. But I worked in the media department, and two of my main jobs were keeping the expansive CD aisles organized and making sure no one was stuffing Snoop Dogg, Everclear, or Blink 182 into the pockets …
This morning, we celebrated World Communion Sunday with congregations across the world. Each year on the first Sunday of October, Christians of all denominations, backgrounds, and cultures, set aside differences and together celebrate the things we cherish in common: the call of Jesus to love God and one another. Central to our worship, liturgy, and …