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Imagine
We commend this video and website to you this week as you imagine walking and turning on the The Advent Way. How does the way in which God moves to turn restore justice and set right the world make a place for you? Take time to move from scene to scene. Read the text. Imagine. The Boy
Toward Sunday
We are grateful for our time together on The Advent Way. We hope this worship series, rooted in the book of Isaiah and Matthew’s Gospel, invites reflection on how the Advent way prepares us for the beauty and mystery of Christmas. Our privilege as Christians is to receive the gracious gifts of God’s presence in Christ. Our task is to prepare for his coming so that we will not miss life’s greatest gift. Outline of The Advent Way December 1:…
God the Accompanist.
Here is an image of God. Playing along. Waiting for you to approach. Knowing your tune before you are aware. Accompanying you. What would it be like if you understood that this is how God is with us on The Advent Way?
The more we are open…
Worship this Sunday is rooted in Isaiah 35, 1-10, where the prophet describes the coming Servant of Yahweh. It is precisely this quote that Jesus first uses to announce the exact nature of his own ministry (Luke 4.18-19). In each case Jesus describes his work as moving outside of polite and proper limits and boundaries to reunite things that have been marginalized or excluded by society: the poor, the imprisoned, the blind, the downtrodden. His ministry is not to gather…
Turn
God leads through all the events, all the circumstances of your life. Nothing in your life is so insignificant, so small, that God cannot be found at its center. We think of God in the dramatic things, the glorious sunsets, the majestic mountains, the tempestuous seas; but God is the little things too. God is in the music, in laughter and in the dance…. how might you turn toward God, and let God lead you in your dance of…
Toward Sunday
We are grateful for our time together on The Advent Way. We hope this worship series, rooted in the book of Isaiah and Matthew’s Gospel, invites reflection on how the Advent way prepares us for the beauty and mystery of Christmas. Outline of The Advent Way December 1: Walk. Isaiah 2.1-5. December 8: Turn. Matthew 3.1-3. December 15: Imagine. Isaiah 35.1-10. December 22: Love. Matthew 1.18-25. Christmas Eve: 5:00pm & 11:00pm Read the poem from Isaiah 35.1-10. Noel Leo Erskine writes, “Although the people are in a place…
Meeting God on the Advent Way
“There is no limit to the ways in which God may makeGod’s self known. At every turn in our lives there can be a meeting place with God….” (from Prayer by Mother Frances Dominica) Where are you right now? Who are you with or who will you see today that may make God known to you? How might you make God known for another? Turn toward those around you as you go through your day as you live into the…
Sanctuary wilderness
“…worship is always something of a wilderness where people think their lives through and wonder about all that is unknown and frightening and causes them to double-andtriple-check their holds on what is reassuring. No matter how beautiful the sanctuary, the pew where people sit with their fears, worries, responsibilities, and all the rest is a kind of wilderness place where people confront the howling winds, thorny brambles, and lonely emptinesses of their lives.” (from Feasting on the Word by Mark…
Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series this Sunday called The Advent Way. During this series we 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. Outline of The Advent Way December 1: Walk. Isaiah 2.1-5. December 8: Turn. Matthew 3.1-3. December 15: Imagine. Isaiah 35.1-10. December 22: Love. Matthew 1.18-25. Christmas Eve: 5:00pm & 11:00pm Warren Carter writes in Matthew and the margins: A Sociopolitical and…
Advent comes.
The Advent of God is upon us, the season of preparing for the mystery of Christmas when God comes into our world. We invite you on to journey the way of Advent with us as we pause to: Walk, turn, imagine, love. We begin tomorrow.
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…