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reflection

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.21.13

Liturgy In you, oh God, we have life and community. In the city and in us, may your voice be heard. Unconditional, is the love that you place in our hearts. Everlasting, is the promise of hope you made. We gather as the city. We gather as the disconnected. We gather as the restless. We gather to offer an urban […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.14.13

Liturgy We believe in God whose essence is love: seeking, holding, challenging, creating in us. We see God in the gentle touch of a friend, in the hospitality of strangers, On streets and shopping centers, tenements and parks; We believe that God holds our world in love. We believe in Jesus whose essence is life: living, laughing, loving, winning our […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.07.13

Liturgy God sovereign and generous, who commands the rise and fall of the nations, who calls and has chosen many peoples, who weeps when they harm each other, who haunts every local culture – including ours – with your will for well-being, who draws close to the powerless and surprises with power via weakness… You are the one whom we […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 06.30.13

Liturgy We believe in God, Creator of beauty, source of every breath, foundation of every movement. God leads us beside still waters, makes us lie down in green splendor and lets nature heal and restore us. We believe in Jesus, the risen Christ, who loved the least, the last and the lost. Christ loves us, calls us by name and […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 06.23.13

Liturgy God of our past and our present, God of our future, yet to be and awaited, God of our years, our days, and even of this moment: Our lives are deeply rooted in miracles before us, Our faith is richly set in courage running thick, Our vocation is shaped by all those who have risked for your purposes. And […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 06.16.13

Liturgy Come into this sacred space to worship our God whose teaching is perfect; whose directions are sure. Come into this holy place to worship our God whose standards are right; whose commandment is clear; whose judgements are true. We come with holy fear – to be given life, and made wise, to have our hearts stirred and our eyes […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 06.09.13

Liturgy Redeeming God, we journey in hope: daring to believe in impossible things; seeing your imprint on our lives and in our world; knowing that you break through in unexpected ways, even in confusion and despair: in the love of friends and strangers; in the beauty of creation and in the laughter of our neighbors, where we catch a glimpse […]