Injustice. Darkness. Illness. Darkness. Hopelessness and temptations. Darkness. Worry and anxiety. Darkness. Evil in many forms pervades our world. Darkness disorients. We light a bulb and it sizzles and fades out. The light of hope is shattered into many pieces.…
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I was glad
I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem. (Psalm 122:2-3 CEB) This is the place in which God’s people gather to worship.…
With each child born
Call to Worship With each child born, be they be the Christ child, your child, or our own baby… Hope is rekindled. God loves God’s creation. Confident the time will come when the lamb and leopard live in peace together,…
Tagged with: children, lamb and leopard, peace
Posted in Call to Worship, Isaiah, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 11:2-6, Matthew, Matthew 18, Matthew 18:1-5, New Testament, Old Testament, Uncategorized
Posted in Call to Worship, Isaiah, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 11:2-6, Matthew, Matthew 18, Matthew 18:1-5, New Testament, Old Testament, Uncategorized
Born of the Spirit
Come here, little one. Sit with Jesus in joy. Grow in faith. Listen to the words of sage Jesus. Each of us are God’s beloved. The wolf will live with the lamb and the calf and lion will feed together……
Tagged with: children, Interfaith Children's Sabbath, Light a Candle
Posted in Call to Worship, Isaiah, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 11:2-6, Matthew, Matthew 18, Matthew 18:1-5, New Testament, Old Testament, Uncategorized
Posted in Call to Worship, Isaiah, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 11:2-6, Matthew, Matthew 18, Matthew 18:1-5, New Testament, Old Testament, Uncategorized
Offering Ourselves in Worship
*Call to Worship Come and worship! We come to praise and worship the Creating One, the Loving One, the Almighty of Now and To-Come! Bring your offerings! We bring our love offerings to our God as we take our love…
Ruth 4: Somos Uno
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-4.m4a God within us, divinity connecting us. We are one. Somos Uno. +++ The Moabites were despised by the Israelites because they were descendants of a sexual union between Lot and his eldest daughter. In the first chapter of Ruth…
Ruth 3: Seeing As God Sees
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-3.m4a Well, this is one of those parts of the Bible that you’re never sure you want to preach. It is laced with sexual innuendo and maybe explicit sexual behavior. +++ Just look at this third chapter! Naomi tells Ruth…
Ruth 2: Life is Hard
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-2.m4a Life is hard. Life is strikingly hard when you’re poor. It’s harder still when you’re poor and from an immigrant group that is despised and demonized by those around you. [pause] And it certainly doesn’t make it any easier…
Ruth 1
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-1.m4a Chapter 1 of Ruth Once upon a time… Elimelech and Naomi lived in Bethlehem Sons: Mahlon & Chillion famine left Bethlehem for food to live in Moab sons took Moabite wives Orpah Ruth Anyway… Elimelech dies Mahlon & Chillion…
An Angry Savior
From your lives of challenge, of hard work, of weariness, and loneliness, come and worship. In tough times and times of joy, it “is zeal for your house that has consumed me…” (Psalm 69:9a CEB) From lives of righteous anger,…
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