Posts from November 2016
Toward Sunday
Our four-week Advent worship series, Take Me To The Alley, is rooted in the lectionary readings from the Gospel of Matthew. There are a number of ways to Reach in Love as we move toward Christmas this year at The Table: Tubman House: Brief biographical information on families from Tubman House will be in the Sanctuary again this week. Invite your Kitchen Table to take a card on Sunday and add one of these families to their Christmas shopping lists. Please bring wrapped gifts…
Toward Sunday
We shift this week to a four-week Advent worship series called Take Me To The Alley. Our worship series will be rooted in the lectionary, an ancient collection of appointed readings from Scripture, from the Gospel of Matthew. We’ll have a number of ways to Reach in Love as we move toward Christmas this year at The Table. Our Christmas Offering will go to support an organization called Community Against Sexual Harm (CASH). CASH aims to be a picture of hope…
Toward Sunday
This is our final week in our four-week worship series on troubling texts from the Bible. We have chosen stories from the Hebrew scripture which are often neglected because of the difficulty of the content. Our hope is to wrestle with these stories and see what meaning may lie hidden beneath the difficult circumstances of the women’s lives that are depicted. This week our worship will focus on the story of Jephthah’s Daughter (Judges 11:29-40). OUTLINE: Closer Readings of Troubling…
Toward Sunday
This is the third of a four-week worship series on troubling texts from the Bible. We have chosen stories from the Hebrew scripture which are often neglected because of the difficulty of the content. Our hope is to wrestle with these stories and see what meaning may lie hidden beneath the difficult circumstances of the women’s lives that are depicted. This week our worship will focus on the story of an unnamed woman from Judges 19:1-30. Thank you…