Pentecost Sunday commemorates the Pentecost event in the book of Acts, when people from all across the world speaking many languages could suddenly understand one another through the movement of the Holy Spirit. Symbols are fire and wind. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Being awake to God, learning to be comfortable in our own skin, leaning into our pain, being open to the journey, and embracing restfulness are some of the ways we’ve explored what it might look like for us to become more fully alive. Notice that what we have explored has been less about attaining something and instead more about becoming aware that the means are already ours. As author Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, “All we lack is the willingness…
Barbara Brown Taylor says, “In a world of too much information about almost everything, bodily practices can provide great relief. … In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.” We continue this week with our Easter season theme, “Come Alive!”, offering an invitation for us to come more fully alive. In the first version (yes, there are two) of the fourth commandment (Ex.…
In our scripture reading for this Sunday, we find Abram setting out on a journey, heading into an unknown land. This is just one of many journeys we find throughout scripture – journeys taken by many prominent figures of our faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Chapter 2 of the book “Growing in Faith” quotes a passage of Richard Rohr to help us understand what faith is: “For Jesus, faith is not opposed to not believing in God, it doesn’t mean you go to church, or that you’re into religion or that you say “Lord, Lord” (Matthew 7:21). Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety.” The story of the Syro-Phoenician woman is a story about faith. It is the story of a “very daring woman”,…
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Our worship series is rooted in the reflections and contemplative practices of Father Richard Rohr on resurrection. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest and the Founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His writings encourage contemplation as the means of discovering the transformational ways in which he understands that “God is coming to us as our lives.” Worship this morning is rooted in Matthew 22:34-40 and wondering together about the “Jesus Hermeneutic.”
Our worship series is rooted in the reflections and contemplative practices of Father Richard Rohr on resurrection. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest and the Founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His writings encourage contemplation as the means of discovering the transformational ways in which he understands that “God is coming to us as our lives.” Worship this morning is rooted in Ephesians 1:3-12 and invites us into the reality that we are all…
Our worship series is rooted in the reflections and contemplative practices of Father Richard Rohr on resurrection. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest and the Founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His writings encourage contemplation as the means of discovering the transformational ways in which he understands that “God is coming to us as our lives.” Worship this morning is rooted in Luke 24.1-5 and invites us to stop running from resurrection.
We welcome Cesca Wolos-Fonteno to The Table this week.