Yes, the shepherd should have been guarding the 99. Jean and I have studied the historical Jesus in depth and found him to be someone who had a powerful impact on the world because of his radical perception: He modeled for us how to live in the Truth and stand up for justice. I cant begin to tell you how often well-meaning and not so well-meaning Christians quote to me the 15thchapter of Pauls first letter to the followers of Jesus Way in Corinth. pour out your Holy Spirit upon us and upon these your gifts of bread and cup. Liturgies. Only a fool Would resist the contentment, the satisfaction of a purse fat with nine shiny, weighty coins. It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give you our thanks and praise, O God! After the earthquake came a firebut YHWH was not in the fire. Still no luck. The sermon is broken up into three short homilies. But like so many athletes, when my status changed from amateur to professional, I lost my championship status and although I still qualify as a professional wrestler, and I like to see myself as a champion, Im no longer what you would call world-class. Christianitys utterly loveless atonement theories about substitution and payment, arguing down through the centuries about whether this ransom is paid to God or to the devil insult the very memory of the rabbi himself, whose death saves us not from the wrath of God, but rather from ourselves. Well, perhaps I should qualify that statement. Nothing was said until dinner the next day, by which time Steve and Anna had been back to church twice. The face of CHRIST which must be seen if we are to end this madness. Thoughts on Readings, Prayers & Hymn Suggestions. COLLECT PRAYER. History should have taught us by now that that justice and not violence is the way to peace. Neither Anna nor I knew we were engaged in a long pointless argument which had been going on since round about the fourth century. You are still in your sins, and those who have fallen asleep in Christ are the deadest of the dead. And star differs from star in brightness. We lose our capacity for peace and joy, we struggle to show compassion and to connect with others, and we may find ourselves slipping into toxic and destructive attitudes and habits. They were concerned for my mortal soul. We must put all our many blessings to use, to seek justice where-ever we can whenever we can.We cant do it all and we cant do it alone. Letting go isnt as simple as it sounds. For: Only a fool. The trouble is, we all live in the 21st century and we know that the definition of what it means to be human that these stories rely upon no longer rings true. Here's a call to worship and opening prayer for Memorial Day or Remembrance Day. Phos hilaron - a Song of the Light Verses from Psalm 141 Verses from Psalm 104. He blessed it and broke it, and shared it with the disciples. We must be punished. Not all flesh is the same. Suddenly, in the tears of that little Ukrainian family, I began to see the tears of generations of weepers. It is beautiful! "Ground Us and Grow Us in Love," rtf or pdf file of liturgy at Worship Ways. The liturgy wasdeveloped for use during Lent. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of our God. United States We are blessed with riches beyond the wildest dreams of the generations who have gone before us. and to the one in the 1789 English Moravian Hymnal. We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. During the breaking of bread, the Lamb of God or other appropriate song or chant is sung. In this, the 21st century, there is a movement among progressive Christians that focuses more on who Jesus was and why he had such an impact on the world rather than his death. And God called thefirmamentHeaven.. Resurrection is about seeing behind and beyond death, ugliness, injustice, pain and despair. Death, not even violent death at the hands of a powerful empire could keep Jesus commitment to compassionate resistance to the forces of empire from those who longed for the Shalom of the Reign of GOD which Jesus proclaimed with his life. But as for our question about an actual physical body, Paul insists that this is simply a stupid question. *Leader: Congregation of Jesus Christ, since the Lord has blessed us with his Word (and Holy Supper), let us praise his name with thanksgiving. In the tears of that little Ukrainian family, I began to see yet another face of CHRIST, a face I had refused to see before. What could have changed these bumbling, terrified, betrayers, abandoners, who seemed to be always getting things wrong, into a bunch of leaders who began a movement that spread throughout the Empire within their own life-times and then based on the power of their witness, spread throughout the world and continues to nourish and sustain millions of people from generation to generation? endobj What we refer to as the soul was a foreign concept to first century Jews. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: Death has been swallowed up in victory. O Easter God, who shatters all the familiar tombs which we create, enable us to move beyond slavish conformity either to old understandings or to new fashions and with joy embrace your ever-changing, ever challenging future. Suddenly, the Cosmos reminded me that freedom from ancient ways of knowing does not mean freedom from REALITY. by our lack of courage to say yes to the Voice within. This story provides the raw material for the idol that we have created to serve as our god. All risings of the human spirit are preceded by brokenness, loss or rejection. I had been watching the media reports for days, not really believing that war was imminent. ELOHIM the MYSTERY which IS the god known by our ancestors as the GOD who IS the feminine plural of MAJESTY, the ONE Elijah knew as YHWH, the ONE who IS the verb TO BE, the I AM, this ONE comes to Elijah in the DAUGHTER OF A SOUND. No wonder Jesus took Peter, John, and James up there to pray. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow Prayers. But for a brief time, our longing for Spring stirred expectations in us which heralded better times ahead. What can Jesus teach us about God? Set free from a Three-Tiered Universe! Follow Michelle L. Torigian on WordPress.com, musings about liturgical adventures, poetic journeys and such, Wednesday Prayer Searching for Gratitude. What can we see in the wounds which are depicted in this story? What is sown is ignoble, what is raised is glorious. That beautiful, glorious embodiment of CHRIST is singing these words: Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom, She has courageously begun the difficult, painstaking, slow work which lies before her. Evening Prayer Service Bulletin which is to be printed double-sided. He urged them: Remember me. I went headfirst into the ocean, and I sank like a stone. I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;that he appeared to Peter and then to all twelve apostles. (1 Corinthians 15:1-6), Anna carefully underlined in red the phrase: Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures. The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing. He opened the scriptures, explaining everything; and they knew him in the breaking of the bread. Humans are incomplete beings. Settle into your seat, close your eyes and imagine a place that brings you comfort and peace. Above the sky were the Heavens. The occupying Roman forces not only publicly executed their teacher as a warning to any of Jesus would be followers,The Roman Empire, crucified as many dissenters as they could catch. Please feel free to use in your faith communities with attribution. Humans have tried in vain to get themselves back into the garden, to restore our oneness with our creator. This question has generated more than a few sermons of its own. As we receive Communion, these words are said: You are the Bread of Life. we invite your life to fill us; The week before Easter, known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. Call to Worship & Opening Prayer. Click here to listen to a meditative sung liturgy inspired by Julians writings, Crystal was a little breathless from all the crying she had been doing and all she could manage was a whimpered, Mmm hummm. Honey, tell grandma the truth now. We celebrate the risen Christ in our midst. Life finds a way. To climb down from our lofty positions of wealth and privilege in order to serve the poor? The Timeless Psalms: Psalm 148, Easter 5C, Joan Stott, prayers and meditations based on lectionary Psalms, 2016. Some of these messages convey ways we might experience subtle resurrections and deaths in our everyday lives. ), The pattern of death and resurrection is the pattern of all our creating and all our loving. Lutheran good order can and does ensure that such ecstatic behavior never happens in worship. Moments when as Paul would say, we put away childish things. Moments in which the Christian short-hand explanation of Jesus death has died in you. 2023 ProgressiveChristianity.org, A Joyful Path, Childrens Curriculum Sample Lessons for Years One, Two and Three, Find Faith Communities Using A Joyful Path, The Core Values of Progressive Christianity, Bishop Spong Newsletter Progressing Spirit, Advertising on ProgressiveChristianity.org. It was written by Gord Waldie. I am tweaking this for this Sunday credit to your site will be given. Can you drink the dup I will drink or be baptized in the same baptism as I? We can, James and John replied. Repent: Metanoia: to think new thoughts Let us repent, metanoia Let us think new thoughts. So, let me get to the point, so that those who like nothing better than to use the Bible to bludgeon anyone who dares to stray from their narrow understanding of the text, they can simply hit ALL CAPS in their keyboards, without having to read any further. Worship Resources by Lisa Frenz, Mt. jQuery('#submit-action').click(); Our continued evolution relies upon our ability to metanoia, to move beyond primitive ways of thinking. You responded with grace, humility, and welcome. His eyes are too beady. rising you restored our life. we invite your Spirit to lead us ever more faithfully to be the body of Christ in the world. My point is Paul was just warming up. Beautiful! 4810 Pt. Living the Questions is happy to join other Michael Morwood fans in welcoming the arrival of Michael's newest book, Prayers for Progressive Christians. Resources for planning and leading worship, Lift Up Your Heartsand Voices: Involving the congregation in the Communion liturgy through song, The Three Days: Celebrating the summit of Holy Week with four services and two sacraments. He conveyed to us the importance of love and compassion. How deep? What do you know about the life of Jesus that sheds some light on who and what the MYSTERY that we call God is? Alleluia! On first inspection Divinity appeared to the seekers to be like a luminous egg, well rounded, self contained, completely clothed in light and amenable to definition. When we set aside the institutional narrative of atonement that the church has relied upon to interpret the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the idol that masquerades as god, the idol whose contours are reinforced in our worship services, by our hymns, prayers, creeds, choice of scriptures, and rituals, this idol begins to crumble. Christ is risen. Amen. So, if Jesus isnt describing the characteristics of a personified deity, is Jesus actually teaching us how to embody the LOVE which is DIVINITY here in the world? Little Crystal was only two and a half years old when she got hopelessly stuck. There are those who name the stars, who watch the sky by night, If a few well-placed bullets could reunite and restore that little Ukrainian family, maybe Jesus was wrong about non-violent resistance. What we all missed is what was there all along, Humpty Dumpty you see was a cannon. } good times, bad times - give me some of that: blogging on faith and life. Christ is risen! We, too, experience new possibilities arising from our failures or disappointments or what has come to an end. }); Join thousands of others like you who are contributing their voice to Progressive Christianity and list your church, organization or yourself in our global directory. He greets us with peace the world does not know, he give us peace the world cannot give. You are holy, O God of Life, and holy is Jesus Christ, your Son, the resurrected One. One: It is through our neighbors and creation that we see the rising of Christ, O God. Lectionary sermon for 2 October 2022 on Luke 17: 5-10. Liturgy - Easter Liturgy Index Next Easter Day In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days (not counting Sundays). Indeed, it can mean freedom to BE in ways which affirm REALITY, the REALITY we long to know, the ONE which IS BEYOND the BEYOND and BEYOND that Also, this LOVE which we call GOD. Furthermore, I suspect that you do to. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); Fosdick Dr. NW #80 Continue reading . If you are watching this on a screen, chances are that your own wealth far exceeds the expectations of billions of people struggling to survive on this planet. Living the Resurrection Second Sunday of Easter, Year B On the Sunday after Easter, there is a general let down. We thank you, God, for all the love You've given us and for the gift of Jesus. So, let us forget about what we have been conditioned to look for in order to see what needs to be seen, today in the midst the violence in which our world seems incapable of forsaking. One: On this day, we shout Hallelujah! heaven and earth are full of your glory. }); It is in Jesus life, not his death that we will find salvation. if ( '' != thisact ) { We just knew what we knew. A natural body is sown, and a spiritual body is raised up. The spiritual resurrection which Paul describes gave birth to Christianity, within the Jewish context. Why did they repeat these stories over and over again? It didnt take very long before the many layers of clothing, with which I had hoped to insulate myself from the dangers of the cold, failed to keep me moving very far into the expanse of white snow drifts which glistened as the Suns glorious rays danced incapable of warming much of anything but my heart. Well, with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek let me blame it on a dog. This dear friends is what it means for you and me to sit at Jesus side. Then he said to them, Today, in your hearing, this scripture passage is fulfilled., Words 2004 Hope Publishing Company; LiscenSing 1975, When It Comes to Resurrection, We Look For What We Have Been Conditioned to See! In preparation for communion, please join us in reciting the Prayer of Unity that is in your program. But because I had been forced to grapple with something I could not at the time reconcile with the person of Jesus whom I loved. We are gradually adding liturgies and liturgy ideas to our site. Scholars tell us that the letter was written between the years 53 and 57. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The Easter Peace is shared *Hymn This Is the Day February 11th, 2013. The parts of the service preceding the text in UMH are guided by a bulletin or by announcement. Now the green blade rises from the buried grain; Wheat that in dark earth for may days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that rises green. Yes, I have my doubts about the possibility of SHALOM, especially now as we peer into the abyss which are the horrors of Ukraine, Syria, Myanmar, and countless other places where injustice has bred violence the likes of which seems unstoppable. All your creatures testify to your mighty deeds! Let us be LOVE. Anna had copied it from the Good News for Modern Man paraphrase of New Testament. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.. Crystals mother tried to move quickly without panicking. I share these tears with you knowing full well that tears wont put an end to war, nor will they end our constant reliance upon violence to maintain a fragile peace. Abundant life, where everyone has enough to live fully, love extravagantly, and be all that they are created to be, this is the basileia ton THEON, the REIGN of DIVINITY, the Empire of the LOVE which is GOD. Practicing resurrection begins when we huddle together refusing to let our fears entomb us. Jesus Way of being in the world rejects the myth of redemptive violence. Support our mission with a tax-deductible donation! Beautiful liturgy. Most Australian Anglicans use A Prayer Book for Australia (APBA) as the basis for our common prayer. Faith and EthicsKaren Armstrong is amongst a group of religious scholars who have noted that the essential teaching of each of the major religions usually includes some version of "love your neighbour". Our parents were sound asleep when the whales arrived. Frame 11: When life hands you a lemon make lemonade!*. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ As we enter this season of Easter, we ask that the warm winds of the Spirit encircle this table and accompany us on our journey. Your support is needed to help ProgressiveChristianityorg. She phoned her own mother and told her to get there as fast as she could. What kind of body will they have? What a stupid question! Like each flourishing branch of the vine, we, too, blossom in our connection to God and neighbor. Although it can sometimes feel like the demands of others, the restriction of our freedom that comes from living with others, and the constant struggle to maintain strong relationships with others are too painful and exhausting for what they cost us, the alternative, which is to isolate ourselves, is far worse. We remember that he was laid in a borrowed grave. and out of the death of the old comes the birth of the new. We remember that the women came, early in the morning, on the third day. Get their attention and then, deliver your point! My friend and radical theologian Peter Rollin says it much better than I ever could. Neither of us had heard the word atonement before. The people of Israel have abandoned your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death by the sword. }); delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made us a new people. Your email address will not be published. Let us pray: May each of us be aware of the Spirit of God within us today and respond to the Good News, we pray. Liturgy Ideas. Amen. Just when I thought I had God under control the wild wind of the spirit blew me away. Grant that being joined together in him we may attain to the unity of the faith and grow up in all things unto him who is the head, Christ our risen Lord. O God, help us to let go of those mental pictures of you which prevent us from accepting that we will never know you fully and save us from pointless theological argument which reflects our insecurity rather than your mystery. All crosses can be transformed into trees of life. Advent C. First Sunday of Advent. A quick glace toward the shoreline confirmed that I was well beyond where I would safely swim on a summer day and a strange sort of vertigo began to take hold over me. Hosanna in the highest. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it unless it was for nothing that you believed. These parables cant just be about a lamb, or a coin, or even a couple of squabbling children. Thats the thing with stories, one story, if it is even remotely engaging, that one story will inevitably lead to many more stories. Alleluia! Today, is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Today, in the midst of colossal violence, it is long past time for us to see beyond our conditioning about what to believe about resurrection so that we can focus our attention on practicing resurrection. One: On this day, we celebrate the risen Christ Only a fool would be such a steward as this. I expect solutions. Before the congregation hears the weekly scripture readings, the Prayer for Illumination turns our attention to God to ask that we hear God's word in order to better know God's will for our lives. sermon 4 Giving Up God for Lent John 3:16, GOD IS DEAD! Pachena Bay is by far one of the most beautiful places in all of creation. Repent from the Greek word metanoia made up of two Greek words: meta which means, beyond and noos which means mind. Metanoia is an invitation to move beyond your current way of thinking. The Resurrection is witness to the golden incandescence at the heart of life which neither suffering nor death can destroy. Petes words remind me over and over, and over again that Jesus lived and died embodying the CHRIST which is the DIVINE LOVE which rises in with through and beyond you and I, again, and again, and again. As a kid, this Canadian epic always sparked my imagination, as I dreamed of those, strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. for The Artic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold;The Northern Lights have seen queer sights and on and on it goes spinning a which always fills me with glee as I warm my soul by the heat of the cremation of Sam McGee, wondering about all the other strange things done in the mid-night sun. This week, I have been transfigured by the face of CHRIST, not glowing on a mountaintop, but weeping. What can progressive Christians say about the story of Easter? Our Hebrew storyteller paints such a vivid picture of the Thin Place in which Elijah stands. Share as a whole group some responses: What do you know about the life of Jesus that sheds some light on who and what the MYSTERY that we call God is? For we are ONE with an evolving DEITY. I will only attempt to take you where this story took me out there on the ice of Lake Simcoe. So, there could have been half a dozen or there could have been only one whale. In those sepia images of sad, forlorn, frightened faces. Through this prayer, the people of God sanctify the day by continual praise of God and prayers of intercession for the needs of the world. Im afraid that sacrificing more than just a pittance of my own wealth and privilege wont accomplish much more than landing me among povertys captives. But let me assure you that you are looking at someone who used to be a champion wrestler. Then he said to them, Today, in your hearing, this scripture passage is fulfilled. (Luke 4:14-21). You can catch glimpses of this LOVE resisting the violence of domination systems, in every champion of the environment, every compassionate advocate for the poor, the oppressed and the marginalized. One day, Elijah demanded of the voice, I have been very zealous for YHWH God Omnipotent. Longing to experience and share the fullness of Life that you offer, Somehow, these long busy days working in my office at home, while we all do our best to cope with what we hope will be the last tidal wave of this pandemic, somehow this created a longing in me, strong enough to push me out on the ice despite the -23 which threatened to rob me of my breath. Jesus reveals CHRIST. Let it go. Sure enough, the vase slipped off as smooth as silk. God is with you! For those of you preaching on the text fromGenesis 32:3-31: You may not be able to tell from looking at me. While the first century story told by the anonymous gospel-storyteller we call Mark, sees the sons of Zebedee, jockeying for coveted seats at the right and left hand of Jesus, our 21st century story portray the contrasting circumstances of wannabe-astronauts blasting far above our planet with scarcely a thought for the 150 million or so who will slip into the depths of poverty before this year ends. As a whale gently brushed the underside of the dingy, a strange calm came over me and I was not afraid. We were Stayin Alive, Stayin Alive all week long, working toward Saturday Night Fever, when we Should Be Dancing, dancing the night away. Prayer of Confession and Pardon for Easter. Weve heard these interpretations of Jesus life, death, and resurrection so many times that they have almost become indistinguishable from the idol that we have created to stand in for the Mystery that we call God. Revealing your love, radiating your life, Jesus taught those who listened to him, All who are truly sorry for their sins, who sincerely believe in the Lord Jesus as their Savior, and who desire to live in obedience to him, are now invited to come with gladness to the table of the Lord. Jesus said, I have come that they might have life and may live it abundantly! LIFE and not death. She scooped the vase and her little girl up into her arms and carried them to the kitchen sink. It took the Church until 1991 to concede that Galileo and not the writer of Joshua was right and that the Earth did indeed revolve around the Sun. The response is Alithos Aneste! Let me attempt to be kinder than the Apostle, whose willingness to call his opponents stupid, I do not share. It began to seem like the only way to get Crystals hand out was to break the family heirloom. Letting go of our carefully crafted and tightly held images of the ONE who IS the SOURCE of ALL BEING is a daunting task. It wasnt until this endless loop exposed the presence of yet another face of CHRIST that I begin to be transfigured. To ask the question of whether the resurrection is true, and to mean by this that only a resurrected corpse constitutes such proof, is to impose the standards of the modern mind upon a pre-scientific culture of myth and magic. Helping you win loyal friends through your communications, All the stuff I should be writing down for a book someday, Soulful leadership in its many manifestations, A Liturgy for Easter Day (with HolyCommunion), Preaching Thomas on Low Sunday Some PossiblePathways, Reflection and Hymn: The Most DeliciousBread, Encampments: In Situ Poems and Found Devotions, This was the Original Episcopal Cafe site. Heaven is ours to create out of the hells we have made. At this point, we would do well to remember that CHRIST is not Jesus last name. Fosdick Dr. NW #80 Wellspring Liturgies. To believe in the historicity of the resurrection is one thing. Christ was alive to those early followers. View the full Worship Video for the Second Sunday of Easter below, CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD the Worship Bulletin. Alleluia! During his blessing, Jesus reminded them how he would go to the ends of the earth in his love for them. Resist the distractions of all that we have, all our treasures, our land, our homes, all the trappings of the empires in which we are entangled. Take, eat. and of the sufferings that are going on around us, let us pray for the establishment of peace, in our hearts and on earth. Or there could have been half a dozen or there could have been guarding 99. Riches beyond the wildest dreams of the Spirit blew me away not know, give! 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