Posts from June 2016
Toward Sunday
We’ll continue our worship series this week on the parables of Jesus and my message will be rooted in the parable of the Good Samaritan ( Luke 10:25-37). Lectio Divina will continue to shape our searching of scripture in our Kitchen Tables and we hope you will use this process for praying this parable as you gather this week in your Kitchen Tables. The process is outlined below. I hope your experience with Lectio Divina was meaningful last week. Please remember, like every…
Toward Sunday
We begin a new worship series this week on the parables of Jesus. This summer worship series is based on Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy Jill-Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar who teaches at Vanderbilt. We’ll be introducing Lectio Divina as our summer discipline for searching the scripture in our Kitchen Tables this week. My message this Sunday will weave together three parables: Parable of the Lost Sheep, Parable of the Lost Coin, Parable of the Lost Son/Prodigal…
Toward Sunday
This week we consider Fasting & Abstinence alongside Exodus 16 as we conclude our worship series on practicing Christian disciplines to stay in love with God. Outline for Staying in Love with God. •May 15: Acts 2.1-21 (Public Worship) •May 22: Acts 2:37-42 (Witness/Testimony) •May 29: Psalm 92.1-4,12-15 (Prayer) •June 5: 2 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (Searching Scripture) •June 12: Matthew 26:26-28 (Communion) •June 19: Exodus 16.1-3, 9-15, 31, 35 (Fasting) In A Blueprint for Discipleship Kevin Watson writes: “Fasting is the practice of not eating food for a period of time. [John] Wesley regularly fasted throughout his…
Toward Sunday
This week we consider Communion alongside Matthew 26:26-28 as we move into week 5 of our worship series on practicing Christian disciplines to stay in love with God. Outline for Staying in Love with God. •May 15: Acts 2.1-21 (Public Worship) •May 22: Acts 2:37-42 (Witness/Testimony) •May 29: Psalm 92.1-4,12-15 (Prayer) •June 5: 2 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (Searching Scripture) •June 12: Matthew 26:26-28 (Communion) •June 19: Exodus 16.1-3, 9-15, 31, 35 (Fasting) Read Matthew 26:26-28. John Wesley believed “constant communion”…