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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…
Toward Sunday
We continue in worship this week by turning to the Parable of the Pharisee & the Tax Collector (Luke 18:9-14). Our summer worship series is largely based on Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy Jill-Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar who teaches at Vanderbilt. We are practicing Lectio Divina in our Kitchen Tables each week to prepare for worship. We invite our blog readers to try this as well. Outline of Summer Stories: A Series…
Toward Sunday
We begin a new worship series this week on the parables of Jesus. This summer worship series is based on Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy Jill-Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar who teaches at Vanderbilt. We’ll be introducing Lectio Divina as our summer discipline for searching the scripture in our Kitchen Tables this week. My message this Sunday will weave together three parables: Parable of the Lost Sheep, Parable of the Lost Coin, Parable of the Lost Son/Prodigal…