Liturgy Holy God, God of risk, of action and of love, we gather today to worship and learn. Thank you for the newness you give us with each morning. Thank you for the familiarity of people and things around us. You bless us with discerning minds, and we ask for courage to use them. Open our hearts to hear your […]
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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.07.2016
Liturgy Creator God, we gather today in worship of your holiness, your goodness, your faithfulness. You are the creator of joy, of love, and of life. We praise you for your goodness. You have designed us to reflect your nature, and so you have given us the power to be holy, good and faithful. Open our hearts to the mystery […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.24.2016
Liturgy Heavenly Father, May we seek you and find you, may we knock and the door be opened, for we are sojourners looking for your Kingdom. As we encounter suffering in this world, turn our hearts, our ears, our eyes, our souls toward Christ, who emptied himself, and was tempted, and suffered for us, even giving his own life. In […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.17.2016
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 compassion which makes us whole. With word and wonder, with silence and song, we wait: Dwell […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.10.2016
Liturgy The table of Jesus is our place of gathering. Here, you are welcomed, wanted, loved. Here, there is a place set for you. So come all you who are hungry, all you who hunger for the bread of life, all you whose souls cry out for healing. Come all you who are weary, all you who are bowed down […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 06.19.2016
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 […]
Healed into Community
Following the tragedy in Orlando, Gideon Tsang gives a homily as a confession in hopes that we can all be healed into community.