Liturgies
Our inclusive language liturgies generally set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. Since announcements are an integral part of our life together, we offer some guidelines for those who make announcements towards the end of worship.
.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 {margin-left: -2em; }.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 .wp-show-posts-inner {margin: 0 0 2em 2em; } GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION We are experiencing all kinds of trouble, but we aren’t crushed. We are confused, but we aren’t depressed. We are harassed, but we aren’t abandoned. We are knocked down, but we aren’t knocked out. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Common English Bible (CEB) GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION Jim Wallis, The Call to Conversion, p.65 GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION Shake out your qualms. Shake up your dreams. Deepen your roots. Extend your branches. Trust deep water and head for the open, even if your vision shipwrecks you.… everything transforms! in Little Sermons of the Big Joy.
ENTRANCE REFLECTION There is a hard truth to be told: before spring becomes beautiful, it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck. I have walked in the early spring through fields that will suck your boots off, a world so wet and woeful it makes you yearn for the return of ice. But in that muddy mess, the conditions for rebirth are being created. Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, p 1032016 Recommitment – Lament and Promise
2016 – Summer “What in the World….”
2016 After Pentecost – Thank God We’re All in This Together
2016 Easter – Transforming Faith
2016 Lent – We Become Re-Formed