Liturgy Gracious God, into the shadows of our isolation you speak words of life and community. You challenge the lives we lead, and you call us away from places we try to call home to lead us more deeply into the world you love. With your gentle, healing touch you redeem the broken fragments in our lives, and you heal […]
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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.06.2015
This week we had a special performance by artist Scott Erickson, so our prayers were limited to the Benediction Benediction As you go from here, remember the promise of God: “I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.30.2015
Liturgy As we gather today, we pray that our lives may not turn our faiths into a certainty. Lord God, our Father, you speak your word to us through your Son Jesus Christ. May we listen to his words and welcome it with all that is in us. Let those words change our mentality and our ways, that it may […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.23.2015
Liturgy Let us pray, that by growing in love this season we may bring the peace of Christ to our city. God our Father, your Word, Jesus Christ, spoke peace to a sinful world and brought mankind the gift of reconciliation by the suffering and death he endured. Teach us, the people who bear his name, to follow the example […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.16.2015
Liturgy We are called to be people of faith in the midst of the world, and so we mix our worship and our work, our faith and our life. We gather here as people who live in the world and yet, we gather as people who have been called to see our world from a different viewpoint. God calls us […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.09.2015
Liturgy In these moments, in this family of faith, the God of gentleness gathers us together: that in community, our imperfections may be transformed into acts of peace for others. In this place, in our church shaped by his grace, Christ, the Bread of life, calls us to service: that our way of living may be transformed into compassion and […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.02.2015
Liturgy One body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all, take this patchwork collection of people and quilt together your church. Like old pieces of cloth, take these words, songs and prayers, take our thoughts and inner hungers, and join them […]