Posts from July 2016
Toward Sunday
We continue in worship this week by turning to the Parable of the Pharisee & the Tax Collector (Luke 18:9-14). Our summer worship series is largely 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 are practicing Lectio Divina in our Kitchen Tables each week to prepare for worship. We invite our blog readers to try this as well. Outline of Summer Stories: A Series…
Toward Sunday
Worship yesterday invited reflection on how the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price calls us to go “all in” so that God’s love and justice will be known for all and not just for some. We continue in worship this week with focus on the Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Mark 4:30-32 ). 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…
Toward Sunday
We’ll continue our worship series this week on the parables of Jesus and my message will be rooted in the VERY SHORT parable of the Kingdom of Yeast in the Dough ( Matthew 13:33 ). The Lectio Divina process is outlined below. Our summer worship series is largely 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. Outline of Summer Stories: A Series on the Parables of Jesus…