Outline for Vulnerable Renderings
•February 10: (Ash Wednesday)
•February 14: Luke 4.1-13 Vulnerability in temptation
•February 21: Luke 13.31-35 Vulnerability in sacrifice
•February 28: Luke 13.1-9 Vulnerability in needing others
•March 6: Luke 15.1-3, 11b-32 Vulnerability in Grace
•March 13: John 12.1-11 Vulnerability in accepting generosity
•March 20: Luke 19.28-40 (Palm Sunday)
•March 24: Maundy Thursday (6:00 pm in Social Hall)
•March 25: Holy Friday (7:00 pm in Sanctuary)
•March 27: Easter Sunrise (6:30 am Rose Garden McKinley Park) Celebrate Easter (9:30 am & 11:00 am Sanctuary)
Worship this Sunday will focus on a story of Jesus and his friends who are gathered around a table for a meal. Invite your Kitchen Table to imagine the scene as one of you reads aloud John 12.1-11. There are many characters at this dinner party (Mary, Martha, Judas, Lazarus & Jesus.)
Barbara Brown Taylor writes: “Whatever Mary thought about what she did, and whatever anyone else in the room thought about it, Jesus took it as a message from God–not the hysteric ministrations of an old maid gone sweetly mad but the carefully performed act of a prophet.” How do you think you would have responded to Mary’s gift of anointing Jesus? What might you have said if you were in charge of the finances for this community? Is there a time in which you made an extravagant offering that was received as wasteful? Take time to share your thoughts with your Kitchen Table.