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Toward Sunday
We’ll continue our worship series, Way of Love, this week with reflection on the Christian story of fall & redemption. Norman Wirzba writes, “The way of love requires a transformation of the human heart and a reorientation of one’s life. To become proficient in the ways of love, we need a sympathetic and supporting community helping us all along the way. Christianity is best understood as a training ground in the ways of love” (Way of Love, 3-4). Way of Love Outline Sept…
Toward Sunday
We will turn this week from Consumption to Climate and reflect upon how our faith might shape the ways we consume. The outline for this worship series began to develop earlier this summer when we attended a conference called Seizing An Alternative. We hope this worship series will encourage us to consider how our faith tradition calls us to honor the earth. The earth is in a time of peril and we believe our Christian tradition can both teach and…
Toward Sunday
We continue our worship series called I Wonder… this week at The Table. While Godly Play is our ministry with children, we have shared Godly Play with students at UC Davis and colleagues in various ministry settings. We hope this worship series will be transformational for people of all ages as we wonder together about the stories of our Christian tradition through the lens of Godly Play. Outline for I Wonder… ▪May 31: Godly Play Brought Me to Faith, a…
Creation
“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth. the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good..” (from Genesis 1) “To make suggests making something out of something else the way a carpenter makes wooden boxes out of wood. To create suggests making something out…