Liturgy The Spirit of God calls us from many places; some of us come from busy homes with many people, some of us live alone. We are all part of the family. This week has been different for each of us; some of us have happy news we want to celebrate, some of us face grief and need comforting. We […]
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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.26.12
Liturgy Our God is the God of all, The God of heaven and earth, Of the sea and of the rivers; The God of the sun and of the moon and of all the stars; The God of the lofty mountains and of the lowly valleys. He has his dwelling around heaven and earth, and sea, and all that in […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.19.12
Liturgy We are called by God to be the church of Jesus Christ, a sign in the world today of what God intends for all time. To bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and to comfort […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.12.12
Liturgy We thank you, God, for your gifts of beginnings and ends. To start again the work you have called us to do, and to finish well with your Spirit guiding us. And yet, God of the covenant, even when we fail and fall into sin, your Spirit invites us to remember that you chose us to be your servant […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.05.12
Liturgy We believe in an innovative God, who does not wait for us to find ourselves but comes seeking the lost and calling us into a new way. We believe in Jesus of Nazareth as God’s crucial initiative, that when he calls us to follow, Christ also gives us the power to become, both in creed and deed, the children […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.29.12
Liturgy In the sun which banishes the shadows, in the birds who chorale us awake: it was you, Creation’s Joy, leading us into this new day. In the touch, healing long-grasped grudges, in the laughter of children which nudges us into hope: it is you, Emmanuel, God with us, who walks each step of the way with us. In the […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.22.12
Liturgy It is truly right always and everywhere to praise you, Lord God our Father, Lover of all. Your wind swept the waters when our world began, and you spoke the Word that was always your Word. Through him all things came to be, and his life lightened every life with the light, darkness could not swallow. And when sin’s […]