In the midst of darkness & chaos… God imagined. In the fury & darkness… God imagined a world filled with trees, and blue skies and fluffy white clouds. In the meadow, God stood and… imagined foxes, bluebirds, and slithering snakes.…
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Call to Worship: When God Imagined Me
Posted in Call to Worship, Genesis, Genesis 1, Genesis 1-2, Genesis 1-2:1, Old Testament, Uncategorized
Show Us the Way
*Call to Worship & Invocation We are each worthy of grace and love & mercy when viewed through divine eyes. We are God’s beloved. Sometime we fail to live in harmony with God’s dreams for us. God has expectations. Half…
Merciful Love Prevailed
Call to Worship & Invocation God called Jonah to prophesy to the Ninevites. And Jonah ran. From the belly of a great fish, Jonah prayed to God for salvation. He remained in the fish for three days. The fish vomited…
Reborn from the Sea Womb
*Call to Worship & Invocation You are in the presence of God. The One whose love nudges at us and pursues us in all times and all places is among us. Like Jonah, we too often run from the task…
Lustrous & Worthy
Call to Worship Acts 2:1-4 When Pentecost Day arrived, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound from heaven like the howling of a fierce wind filled the entire house where they were sitting. They saw what…
Posted in Acts, Acts 2, Acts 2:1-4, Call to Worship, Hildegard of Bingen, Invocation, New Testament, Words of Wisdom
Swim & Splash in Cleansing Waters
Out of a world of cut-throat competition, of winners-and-losers, and too many left behind we come together. The world’s ways are not our ways. The world’s ways are not Christ’s ways. Out of a world of hatred, violence, individualism, and…
Posted in Call to Worship
Loving Hour to Hour
Call to Worship Acts 2:42-44, 47a The believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the community, to their shared meals, and to their prayers. A sense of awe came over everyone. God…
Tagged with: community
Posted in Acts, Acts 2, Acts 2:42-44, 47a, Call to Worship, Invocation, New Testament
Posted in Acts, Acts 2, Acts 2:42-44, 47a, Call to Worship, Invocation, New Testament
Saturate Us With Your Presence
Call to Worship Psalm 133 Look at how good and pleasing it is when families live together as one! It is like expensive oil…
The Wind at Our Backs
The wind at our backs, we entered Jerusalem. Only to watch him die on the cross. It spiraled so quickly. Trial. Torture. Crucifixion. Death. But on the third day the breath of God blew new life into our futures. Forty…
Tagged with: Eastertide
Posted in Acts, Acts 2, Acts 2:1-15, Acts 2:1-4, Call to Worship, Eastertide, Invocation, New Testament, Pentecost
Posted in Acts, Acts 2, Acts 2:1-15, Acts 2:1-4, Call to Worship, Eastertide, Invocation, New Testament, Pentecost
Esther & Easter
Christ Is Risen! Christ Is Risen, Indeed! Nearly five-hundred years before Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, the exiled Jewish people looked for an earthly leader for their salvation from genocide. In grief & despair, the Jewish people yearned for a future…
Tagged with: Easter Sunday
Posted in Call to Worship, Days of the Church, Easter, Esther, Esther 4:1-17, Esther 4:14-17, Luke, Luke 24, Luke 24:1-12, New Testament, Old Testament
Posted in Call to Worship, Days of the Church, Easter, Esther, Esther 4:1-17, Esther 4:14-17, Luke, Luke 24, Luke 24:1-12, New Testament, Old Testament
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