Call to Worship
Praise the Lord, all you people of God!
We join our voices with all creation to bless the Lord!
The morning stars sing, and the heavens shout for joy.
How great are the works of our God!
The earth is full of God’s glory.
Our eyes have seen the majesty of the Lord.
Invocation
Source of all wisdom,
Throughout the earth [...]
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Proper 24 Year B
Posted in church, prayer, worship on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jacques Ellul on Christian Living
Posted in church, spiritual practices, spirituality, theology on 6 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m reading from All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time by Robert Ellsberg.
The saint for January 6th is Jacques Ellul, the French theologian and sociologist.
He believed that the task of Christian living was “to create a new style of life,” in opposition to secular criteria. Robert Ellsberg puts it [...]
Invocation for Pentecost
Posted in church, prayer, worship, tagged breath, creation, holyspirit, pentecost, prayer, spirit on 2 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Come, Holy Spirit,
the one who sang a new melody as God’s Creation rose from Chaos,
who wept at the dark shadow of a cross,
and who danced early in the morning, at the opening of an empty tomb,
Come, Holy Spirit,
the one who could not be contained by wind, or flame, or breath,
the one who blesses the Church [...]
call to worship, lent 5a
Posted in Lent, church, worship on 6 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
call to worship
Lift up your voice and call out to God.
We cry out, believing that God hears us.
Come together and wait for God.
We come together, trusting that God is still speaking.
Surely God’s presence is here with us now.
We wait in hope, for God’s steadfast love lifts our hearts.
Come, worship the Lord.
We celebrate the power of [...]
prayer of confession, Transfiguration
Posted in church, prayer, worship on 31 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prayer of Confession:
The presence of God surrounds us, and yet too often we go about our daily lives oblivious to the power of Holy Spirit moving in our midst. Let us together confess the ways in which we are blind to God’s everpresent care.
God of rainbows and puddles,
Lover of snowshowers and clear blue skies,
we [...]
prayer of confession, Epiphany
Posted in church, prayer, worship on 2 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prayer of Confession:
The prophet speaks of the coming light of God which calls all the people of the earth to come together in God’s realm of shalom. Let us confess the ways in which we have rejected God’s vision of wholeness:
God of light and darkness, We have seen the glimmer of your star-light beckoning to [...]
advent wreath candle lighting liturgy
Posted in Advent, church, worship on 4 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Advent 1, Year A
Each year we tell ourselves it will be different. We will say no to the fuss and the stress. We will say yes to opening our hearts for the Christ child. Yet each year the neighbor across the street gets Christmas lights up before we do. And the calendar fills up [...]
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