Toward Sunday (Page 5)
Our Artist-in-Residence, Erik Castellanos, added several more renderings to our Sanctuary last Sunday as we celebrated worship with Agape (Dave Scherer) & Rachel Kurtz. Please take time to view the paintings either before or after worship this Sunday as we continue our journey through the season of Lent by turning to Luke 13.1-9.
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)
Are you generally inclined to make quick judgments or generally inclined to postpone decisions? Describe a time your “way of being” has caused harm. Describe a time your “way of being” has done good.
Read Luke 13.1-9.
Leslie J. Hoppe writes, Three years should have been enough time for the fig tree to be productive. The logical course of action is to uproot the unproductive tree so that it does not take up valuable ground that could be used to nourish a fruit-bearing tree. Jesus has the person responsible for the vineyard doing something that simply does not make sense under the circumstances, but the extravagant nature of God’s mercy is an important motif in Luke’s Gospel (e.g., 15:1–32). Still, people need to respond to God’s mercy (13:8–9). The fig tree may be given another year to demonstrate its ability to produce fruit, but if it fails to do so, it will be cut down (Feasting on the Word: Year C, Volume 2: Lent through Eastertide Kindle Locations 3525-3526).
Consider where you most see yourself in this story:
- as the gardener (wanting to allow more time)
- as the landlord (needing to see results now)
- as the fig tree itself (overlooked and needing care)
- as the soil around the tree
- as the manure being brought in by the gardener
Take time for prayer as you live into the many parts of this passage for Sunday.
Toward Sunday
Our Artist-in-Residence, Erik Castellanos, added several more renderings to our Sanctuary last Sunday as we celebrated worship with Agape (Dave Scherer) & Rachel Kurtz. Please take time to view the paintings either before or after worship this Sunday as we continue our journey through the season of Lent by turning to Luke 13.1-9. 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…
Toward Sunday
This Sunday (Feb 21) at 11:00 am AGAPE (Dave Scherer) & Rachel Kurtz will be with us. The 11:00 am worship will weave Dave & Rachel’s music with a time of prayer and a message by Dave. For those who do not find Hip Hop music on the top of their list, we will have our usual (fabulous) music team at 9:30 am. I’ll be sharing the message at 9:30 am. We’d love to have you stay for both 9:30…
Ash Wednesday
Join us Wednesday morning at 7:00 am in the Sanctuary Communion | Ashes | Music | Prayer | Reflection ~45 minute Ash Wednesday Worship
Toward Sunday
This week we enter the season of Lent as we move toward the mystery of Easter. Our journey begins in the early morning hours of Ash Wednesday as we mark the start of forty days of Lent. Traditionally, Lent is a time for Christians to enter a period of self-reflection, prayer, and preparation in anticipation of the celebration of Easter. The symbolism of forty days has many roots, including the flood and forty years of wilderness wanderings, but inspiration for…
Toward Sunday
We complete our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. This week we put Jesus Christ on The Table. Each week we’ve been inviting reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope we have been able to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of…
Toward Sunday
We continue with our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. This week we put $.77 on The Table. Each week we’ve been inviting reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of these topics. We recognize the…
Toward Sunday
We continue with our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. Each week we will invite reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of these topics. We recognize the eclectic and beautiful diversity of our church…
Toward Sunday
We continue with our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. Each week we will invite reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of these topics. We recognize the eclectic and beautiful diversity of our church…
Toward Sunday
We begin a new five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. Each week we will invite reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of these topics. We recognize the eclectic and beautiful diversity of our church…
Toward Sunday
We are hosting around 120 unhoused guests this week for Winter Sanctuary. Join us as we reach in love this week. Sign up here. Worship this Sunday will be rooted in John 1.1-20. The opening lines take readers all the way back to the beginning. New Year’s offers us all a sense of new beginning. My message will invite reflection on 2015 and encourage us to have intentional beginnings to the new year. Thinking back on your journey with The Table in…
Christmas is here.
God’s love is for all. We will reach in love by extending hospitality to around 120 unhoused guests this December 27 – January 3. We would love you to join us by signing up for one or more shifts here.
Che Jesus
Che Jesus, They told me that you came back to be born every Christmas. Man, you’re crazy! … with this stubborn gesture of coming back every Christmas you are trying to tell us something: That the revolution that all proclaim begins first of all in each one’s heart, That it doesn’t mean only changing structures but changing selfishness for love, That we have to stop being wolves and return to being brothers and sisters, That we… begin to work seriously…