God of grief and sadness, Hear our stories. Give us hope in the midst of loss. God of trauma and despair, Hear our stories. Reassure us with your peace. God of love and justice, Hear our stories. Show us your…
God of grief and sadness, Hear our stories. Give us hope in the midst of loss. God of trauma and despair, Hear our stories. Reassure us with your peace. God of love and justice, Hear our stories. Show us your…
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.…
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,…
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……
*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…
Embracing Spirit, it’s been a rough week more shootings political discord polarization our hopes dashed and the death of loved ones it’s also been a hopeful week relationships & connections kindnesses shown & commitments to the stranger and the birth…
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…
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…
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…
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…