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Toward Sunday
We’re so grateful for the many people who helped welcome unhoused guests to The Table this week. We’ll now begin a new worship series called Life Together. The title of our series is taken from a book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who led a resistance movement during the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Worship over the next two months will invite and challenge us to consider what costly discipleship might look like at this moment in…
Walk
In a blog post commentary on our Isaiah text this week, Anathea Portier-Young writes: Light is life (Job 17:1; 18:5, 18; 33:28, 30), goodness (Job 30:26), joy (Psalm 97:11), revelation and truth (Job 12:22; Psalm 43:3). It is linked with justice and righteousness (Isaiah 59:9) and the promise of salvation (Isaiah 49:6) and healing (Isaiah 58:8). Light is also what makes it possible to follow a path…What a simple summons then, to walk in the Lord’s light, in divine glory,…
Toward Sunday
We begin a four-week worship series this Sunday called The Advent Way. Our worship series will invite reflection on how the Advent way prepares us for the beauty and mystery of Christmas. Worship will be rooted in the book of Isaiah and Matthew’s Gospel. A note on Advent from A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God by Norman Shawchuck & Rueben P Job: Advent marks the beginning of the church year and lays before us the pathway of…