'lent' Tagged Posts (Page 3)
Prayer
Rescue me, O God, from the foolishness of presuming to know what I do not know. Save me from failing to trust whom I can trust. Allow your comfort to enter me. Help me prepare for you as you are and will be. Amen. (based on a prayer by John Indermark from Parables and Passion p. 77)
Giving up certainty
“In these times I don’t, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don’t want what I know and want what I don’t know.” ~Marsilio Ficino from The Letters of Marsilio Ficino vol. 3
Weeds
How does one live in a world where weeds do infest the ground, and evil does rear its head in powerful ways that defy certainty and simple answers? The Parable of the Weeds. Matthew 13.24-30
Location, location, location.
“Where are we to look? What are we to go after? Barbara Brown Taylor suggests that “God decided to hide the kingdom of heaven not in any of the extraordinary places that treasure hunters would be sure to check but in the last place that any of us would think to look, namely, in the ordinary circumstances of our everyday lives.” Not too high up, not too far away. ” ~Barbara Brown Taylor Where do you find God on a…
Ash Wednesday
“In these bodies we will live, In these bodies we will die. Where you invest your love, you invest your life.” ~Mumford & Sons
Toward Sunday
We begin a new worship series this week. We are inviting our community to Give Up Certainty for Lent as we root ourselves in the parables of Jesus. What is a parable? Exact definitions vary from “stories of life with religious or spiritual lessons” to “metaphors or similes that take narrative form.” We will be operating on an understanding of parables as “thin places” where the usual boundaries between heaven and earth, holy and ordinary, known and mysterious, come together. Those are…