Liturgy With friends and strangers, with family and neighbors, we gather: Dwell among us, Healing God, with your love which never ends. With faith reaching out to touch, with hearts straining to trust, we hope: Dwell among us, Friend of the broken, with your...
Liturgy Come with your questions, come with your awe, for the God who broods over the chaos meets us in this place. Come with your energy, come with your weariness, for the God who breathes new life into the dust meets us in this place. Come with your sadness, come...
Liturgy Teach us the courage, O God, to turn from what seems so natural, so safe: the way of grasping power, and befriending the powerful, in the hope of protection and security. Teach us the humility, O God, to turn from what is so enticing, so persuasive: the way of...
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...
Liturgy Let us pray. O God of our hearts, You yearn to be close to us that we might know you in every breath, in every hope, in every relationship. Meet us this week and teach us to recognize the covenant of justice, peace and love you have written on our hearts. May...
Liturgy The Word you spoke, and keep speaking, O God, is the life, the sustenance, of all that is – seen and unseen. The Life you gave, and keep giving, O Christ, is the recreation, the renewed birth of every broken, wounded and sinful creature. The breath you...
Liturgy O God of our hearts, You yearn to be close to us that we might know you in every breath, in every hope, in every relationship. May we in turn, draw close to one another to build your kingdom and your church. Teach us to recognize the covenant of justice, peace...
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...
Liturgy Good God, Creator of the world, draw us into prayer and celebration as we gather to remember the gifts of your earth and the stewardship you have entrusted to us as tillers and tenders in your image. We know that in the gathering of your people, power is...
Liturgy In the beginning God created all things, and God saw that they were good. At our beginning, God created us unique and irreplaceable, loved and wanted by God, known and treasured by God even before He created us. In all our new beginnings, God creates something...