This week we consider Prayer alongside Psalm 92.1-4,12-15 as we move into week 3 of our worship series on practicing Christian disciplines to stay in love with God. We will also thank our Godly Play teachers for watching over our children in love this year in worship with a short liturgy of gratitude.
Matt has been able to complete drafts of two chapters and is working this week on finishing what we hope will be our third chapter. His writing has focused on the story of our church and our hopes to be rooted in Grace, growing in faith, and reaching in love. Matt will turn his attention this week to writing about the second and third rules in Methodism: do no harm and do good. His time away in Petaluma is providing an important distance for perspective and an incredible opportunity to read & study. The Louisville Institute’s grant for our Pastoral Study Project is a phenomenal expression of generosity and we continue to be grateful for this time.
Reading the ancient prayer recorded in Psalm 92.1-4,12-15 aloud.
“In Jewish tradition the Sabbath was understood as a symbol of the perfect rest to come. The Mishnah (the earliest collection of Jewish tradition) tells us that this particular psalm was sung by the Levites in the temple on the Sabbath. The psalm is described as “a song for the world that is to come, for the day which is wholly Sabbath rest for eternity.” ~Scott Shauf