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.
Advent 2012
REFLECTION
As we wait
in this lonely dark of ourselves
we do sometimes see tracings and splinters
a flicker of the dream of your world –
sparks and flashes we almost remember.
Rod Jellema,
excerpt from “A Litany Prayer for Darkness in an Age of Glare”
Jubilee 2012
REFLECTION
As we wait
in this lonely dark of ourselves
we do sometimes see tracings and splinters
a flicker of the dream of your world –
sparks and flashes we almost remember.
Rod Jellema,
excerpt from “A Litany Prayer for Darkness in an Age of Glare”
Recommitment 2012
REFLECTION
Whenever Jesus says come and follow him, he is saying: I’d like to invite you to join my community. I’d like you to pick up your life, to pack up your bags and come share your life with us. Come join us, come experience the new kind of security that we have found by trusting God together.
Jim Wallis,
The Call to Conversion: Why Faith is Always Personal but Never Private,1981, p.66
Summer 2012
Reflection
Telling someone “I love you” in whatever way is always delivering good news. Nobody will respond by saying, “Well, I knew that already, you don’t have to say it again”! Words of love and affirmation are like bread. We need them each day, over and over. They keep us alive inside.
Henry J. M. Nouwen, “Words that Feed Us,”
Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith,
entry for February 12
After Pentecost 2012 – Why are You Afraid? Have You No Faith?
REFLECTION
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Attributed to Anais Nin