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Toward Sunday
We conclude our worship series Give Up Certainty for Lent: Live in the Parables of Jesus as we journey together this week through Holy Week. Please invite your Kitchen Table to join us… We will gather for a simple meal on Maundy Thursday from 6:00-7:15 pm in the Social Hall on April 17. This intergenerational worship service will weave music and prayer stations and the story of Jesus’ Last Supper through the lens of Godly Play. We will gather for a solemn remembering of Good Friday at…
Prodigal sings to us all
When is a time you remember calling out to God? What was your lament? What did you hear from God? The Prodigal Son The Ghosts that we know The son sings to us all…including God You saw my pain, washed out in the rain And broken glass, saw the blood run from my veins But you saw no fault, no cracks in my heart And you knelt beside my hope torn apart But the ghosts that we knew Will…
Prodigal Son Playlist 3
The parable of the Prodigal Son. What might it feel like for you to be the younger son? What would be the most challenging for you? The son: How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes I struggle to find any truth in your lies And now my heart stumbles on things I don’t know My weakness I feel I must finally show God: Lend me your hand and we’ll conquer them all But lend me your heart and…
Prodigal Son Playlist 2
Read The Prodigal Son and reflect on a time in which you felt “lost” and were welcomed home. The younger son rethinks his choice…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSLsUS29UiM The son: And after the storm, I run and run as the rains come And I look up, I look up, on my knees and out of luck, I look up. Night has always pushed up day You must know life to see decay But I won’t rot, I won’t rot Not this mind and…
After the Storm
The parable of The Prodigal Son http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSLsUS29UiM The son: And after the storm, I run and run as the rains come And I look up, I look up, on my knees and out of luck, I look up. Night has always pushed up day You must know life to see decay But I won’t rot, I won’t rot Not this mind and not this heart, I won’t rot. God: And I took you by the hand And we stood tall,…
The Prodigal Son playlist
This week as our community lives with the parable of the Prodigal Son we offer you a musical lectio based on songs from the group Mumford & Sons. The original idea came from a blog by Todd Rossnagel if you would like to listen to this in one setting. It will take you 30 minutes. Or you may break it up in parts each day as we share the music through youtube versions. If you have your own recordings you…
Toward Sunday
We are nearing the end our worship series Give Up Certainty for Lent: Live in the Parables of Jesus. This Sunday is Palm Sunday and our worship will be rooted in the parable of The Prodigal Son. The following week, we will celebrate Holy Week with worship in the evening on both Thursday (April 17) and Friday (April 18). Maundy Thursday will be at 6-7:15pm in Fellowship Hall. This will be a family friendly service of music and prayer stations focused on Jesus’ Last…
AGAPE (David Scherer)
Hip Hop in the sanctuary of The Table at Central UMC Sunday, April 6 10:30 am 5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819 All are welcome.
We’re all in this together.
Elie Wiesel is known to have said: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” In our efforts to resist being actively self-righteous like the Pharisee, may we also pay attention to the self-righteousness of our blindness to others. Remember — we’re all in this together.
Local food literacy
There are many ways to become informed about food literacy. Here is link to California Food Literacy to learn more. and a video regarding a local ranch that is reaching in love even as it expands its business in our area.
Toward Sunday
The parables of Jesus take everyday experiences from the time of Jesus and turn them upside down. By showing us ordinary elements and experiences, parables provide a transparency to see the whole of our live and the holy in our lives in a new way (from John Indermark, Parables and Passion, Jesus’ stories for the days of Lent, page 11). This week our worship will be rooted in Luke 18.9-14 Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. It is hard…
Laborers in the Vineyard
“Matthew’s perspective calls for Christians to understand themselves as belonging to a community, so that no decision is purely personal and individual. Matthew’s perspective calls for Christians to understand their lives as being lived in the light of the present and coming kingdom of God, which represents a reversal of cultural values rather than their confirmation. Thus the individual teachings of Matthew’s Gospel cannot be understood on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, unless and until one is converted to the Gospel’s ecclesial…