"Surrender All" Tagged Sermons
SURRENDER ALL
“Surrender All” is an original song about release, trust, and laying down what has become too heavy to carry alone. The lyrics invite the listener to set their burdens at God’s feet — the hurt, anguish, shame, and exhaustion that often get held in the body and spirit. Its imagery of bowed shoulders, undertow, waves, and unmooring gives the song a feeling of being pulled beyond control and into surrender. Theologically, the song frames surrender not as giving up, but…
DEEP COMMITMENTS: REFLECTION
Luke 2:41-47 John Wesley, the founder of the 18th Methodist movement and what became the worldwide Wesleyan tradition, was an advocate for theological reflection and education for all people (regardless of their social status). Embracing the intellectual component of our humanity, he believed that “reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.” Consequently, he believed that reason (along with experience, scripture, and tradition) is one of the fundamental sources we draw upon in order…
The Alchemy of Tears
This week we take our eighth step along the path of the prophetic tradition. Richard Rohr in his book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, reminds us that there is only one book in the Bible named after an emotion: the book of Lamentations, an expression of the “tragic sense of life.” Author and storyteller Megan McKenna poignantly describes the grief bemoaned by the writer of Lamentations, … the universal nature of shared sadness, and…
Growing & Giving
Rev. Kara Root’s “The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us” tells the story of Kara’s journey as a pastor with a small Presbyterian church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kara’s writing has been a source of inspiration for this four-week worship series which invites our community of faith into the depths of what it means to belong to God and each other at The Table. Our worship series will culminate on October 27 with an opportunity to celebrate…
